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THE  BROOKE  FAMILY 


WHITCHURCH,  HAMPSHIRE,  ENGLAND 


THE  BROOKE  FAMILY 

OF 

WHITCHURCH,  HAMPSHIRE,  ENGLAND 


TOGETHER   WITH   AN   ACCOUNT   OF 

ACTING-GOVERNOR    ROBERT    BROOKE 

OF    MARYLAND 


COLONEL  NINIAN  BEALL 

OF   MARYLAND 

AND    SOME  OF  THEIR   DESCENDANTS 


BY 

THOMAS   WILLING   BALCH 


PHILADELPHIA 
Press  of  Allen,  Lane  &  Scott 


Copyright,  1898,  by  Thomas  Willing  Balch 


PREFACE. 


In  this  small  book  I  have  sought  to  present  infor- 
mation I  have  gathered  about  Acting-Governor  Robert 
Brooke  of  Maryland  and  his  family  in  England,  and 
Colonel  Ninian  Beall  of  Maryland  :   I  have  given  also 
an  account  of  some  of  their  descendants.     My  father, 
Mr.  Thomas  Balch,  left  family  papers  containing  much 
valuable  material,  to  which  Mrs.  Henry  Irvine  Keyser 
of  Baltimore,-  Maryland,  and  Arthur  Spayd  Brooke, 
Esq.    of    Reading,    Pennsylvania,   have    added   most 
kindly  from  their  family  archives.     I  am  indebted  also 
for  some    important  facts  to    Mrs.  Jane  Baldwin  of 
Annapolis,  Maryland,  and  for  kind  aid  to  Gregory  B. 
Keen  and  John  Woolf  Jordan,  Esquires,  of  the   His- 
torical Society  of  Pennsylvania.     I  searched  carefully 
in  the  archives  of  the  Maryland  Land   Office,  and 
in  September,  1897,  ^  visited  Whitchurch  in   Hants, 
England.     The  drawings  of  the  coats  of  arms  I  owe 
to  the  kindness  of  Mr.  Brooke. 

Thomas  Willing  Balch. 

Philadelphia,  December  ist,  1898. 


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THE  BROOKE  FAMILY  OF  WHITCHURCH 


SOME   OF   THEIR    DESCENDANTS. 


The  little  village  of  Whitchurch  is  situated  in  the 
northern  part  of  Hampshire,  England.  Since  Saxon 
times  the  place  has  always  had  a  church  built  of  the 
white  stone  found  in  the  neighborhood ;  and  thus  the 
name — Whitchurch — originated.  In  the  latter  half  of 
the  sixteenth  century  there  lived  at  Whitchurch,  Rich- 
ard Brooke,  gentleman,  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Twyne.' 
That  they  were  people  of  means  for  those  days  is 
shown  by  the  items  in  the  will  of  Richard  Brooke 
dividing  among  his  children  his  "  leases  held  by  the 
Blessed  Trinity  in  Winchester,"  his  lease  of  Knoll, 
his  woods  in  Chalgrove  and  Freefolk  and  the  Manor 
of  West  Fosbury.  To  his  wife  he  leaves  his  "free 
lands  and  tenements  in  Whitchurch  and   Freefolk" 


1  She  was  sister  and  co-heir  of  John  Twyne  of  Whitchurch,  and  ap- 
pears to  have  descended  from  Sir  Bry^an  Twyne  of  Long  Parish,  County 
Southampton,  who  was  hving  before  1500. 

Twyne  Arms :  Ar.  a  fesse,  embattled,  sable,  in  chief  two  estoiles  of 
the  last.  William  Berry's  Coimty  Genealogies.  Hants.  London,  1S33, 
pages  222,  223,  339. 


2  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY   OF   WHITCHURCH. 

and   his   "lease   of  the   parsonage   of  Whitchurch," 
their  homestead.^ 

This  house  is  built  of  brick  in  the  open  country 
a  short  distance  beyond  the  church,  which  is  at  the 
western  end  of  the  village.  In  September,  1897,  it 
still  stood  firm  and  sound,  but  with  an  addition  on  the 
side  towards  the  open  country  away  from  the  church 
and  the  village.  In  the  old  part  there  were  three  rooms 
on  the  lower  floor.  The  biggest  room,  which  served 
probably  both  as  a  reception  and  dining  room,  contained 
a  large  open  fireplace.  The  room  back  of  this,  very 
likely,  was  the  kitchen.  In  the  small  remaining  room, 
perhaps  the  stairs  stood.  In  the  largest  room  on 
the  upper  floor,  also  possessed  of  a  fine  open  fireplace, 
Charles  the  First  passed  a  few  days  during  the  Civil 
War  before  the  battle  of  Newberry  in  1644.  The 
brasses  of  Richard  Brooke  and  his  wife,  together  with 


2  Will  dated  January  loth,  158S-9,  as  of  Richard  Brooke  of  Whitchurch, 
County  Southampton,  Gentleman.  Proved  May  6th,  1594,  by  Elizabeth 
Brooke,  relict  and  executrix. 

Will  of  Elizabeth  Brooke  dated  May  i6th,  1599.  Proved  by  Robert 
Brooke,  son  and  executor,  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury  and 
recorded  in  the  Principal  Registry  of  Probate  at  London. 

Communicated  by  Arthur  Spayd  Brooke,  Esq. 

Brooke  Arms:  Chequy  or  and  az.  on  a  bend  gu.  a  lion,  passant,  of 
the  first.  Crest— K  demi  lion,  rampant,  erased,  or.  The  use  of  these 
arms  was  confirmed  by  a  patent  by  William  Camden,  Clarencieux,  Visi- 
tation of  1634.  William  Berry's  County  Genealogies.  Hants.  London, 
1833,  page  339. 


RICHARD    BROOKE    OF    WHITCHURCH.  3 

two  smaller  ones  underneath  of  their  three  sons  and 

three  daughters,  respectively,  the  whole  surmounted 

by  the  Brooke  and  the  Twyne  arms,  are  affixed  on 

the  wall  near  one  corner  ;   all  these  brasses  originally 

were  upon  the  floor  of  the  church.     Under  the  brasses 

a  brass  plate  bears  the  following  inscription,  which  I 

copied  myself: 

"  PiETATis  Opus. 

"  This  grave  (of  griefe)  hath  swallowed  up  with  wide 

and  open  mouth, 
The  bodie  of  good  Richard  Brooke,  of  Whitchurch, 

Hampton  South 

And  Elizabeth  his  wedded  wife,  twice  twentie  yeares 

and  one, 
Sweete  Jesus  hath  their  soules  in  heaven,  ye  ground 

flesh,  skin  and  bone. 
In  Januarie  (worne  with  age)  daie  sixteenth  died  hee. 
From  Christ  full  fifteene  hundred  yeares  and  more  by 

ninetie  three, 
But  death  her  twist  of  life  in  Maie,  daie  twentith  did 

untwine 
From  Christ  full  fifteen  hundred  yeares  and  more  by 

ninetie  nine. 
They  left  behinde  them  well  to   live,  and  growne  to 

goode  degree, 
First,  Richard,  Thomas,  Robert  Brooke,  the  youngest 

of  the  three. 


4  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY   OF   WHITCHURCH. 

Elizabeth,  and  Barbara,  then  Dorathee  the  last, 
All  six  the  knot  of  Natures  love,  and  kindnes  keep- 
ing fast. 
This  Toome  stone  with  the  Plate  thereon,  thus  graven 

fare  and  large 
Did  Robert  Brooke,  the  youngest  sonne,  make  of  his 

proper  charge. 
A  Citizen  of  London  State,  by  faithful  service  free, 
Of  Marchantes,  greate  adventurers,  a  brother  sworne 

is  hee. 
And  of  the  Indian  Companie  (come  gaine  or  losse)  a 

limb, 
And  of  the  Goldsmithe  liverie,  All  these  Codes  giftes 

to  him  : 
This  Monument  of  memorie  in  love  performed  hee  ; 
December  thirtie  one,  from  Christ  sixteene  hundred 

and  three  : 

''Anno  Domini  1603:  Laus  Deo." 

Richard   and    Elizabeth  Brooke,  as  the  inscription 

in  the  church  tells  us,  were  married  in  1552  and  had 

six  children  in  all : 

Thomas  Brooke  who  married  Susan  Forster, 
Richard  who  died  without  issue, 
Dorothy  who  married  Richard  Venables, 
Elizabeth, 
Barbara, 

Robert,  a  citizen  of  London,  who  married  Mary  Duncomb 
and  had  issue. 


THOMAS  BROOKE,  I560-1612.  5 

Thomas  Brooke  of  Whitchurch,  gentleman,  the  eld- 
est son  was  born  in  1560.  He  matriculated  at  New 
College,  Oxford,  November  24th,  1581,  received  the 
degree  of  B.  A.  May  4th,  1 584,  and  was  barrister  at 
law  in  the  Inner  Temple  in  1595;  he  sat  for  Whit- 
church Borough  in  the  Parliament  that  was  sum- 
moned to  meet  at  Westminster  March  19th,  1603-4, 
and  was  dissolved  February  9th,  1610-11,  and  died 
in  1 61 2.3     He  married  Susan  Forster. 

Symonds^  in  his  diary  of  the  marches  of  the  Royal 
Army  thus  describes  a  monument  erected  to  their 
memory. 

"  Whit-church  Church. 

"Against  the  north  wall  chancel,  a  faire  monument, 

the  statue  of  a  man  in  a  barr-gowne,  and  a  woman : 

"  Thom.  Brooke,  Ar.  etat.  52,  ob.  13  Sep.  161 2. 

"  Susanna  uxor  ejus,  filia  natu  max.     Thomae 

Forster    Militis   in   parochia  Hunsdon  com. 

Hertf.  [one  of  the  Judges  K.  B.  Mons.  Insc. 

at  Hunsdon]. 

^Alumni  Oxonienses,  by  Joseph  Foster,  London,  1891 ;  early  series, 

Vol.  I. 

Members  of  Parliament.  Ordered,  by  The  House  of  Commons,  to  be 
printed  ist  March,  1878.     Part  I.,  page  445. 

'^ Diary  of  the  Marches  of  the  Royal  Army  during  the  great  Civil  War, 
kept  by  Richard  Symonds,  7iOcV  first  published  from  the  original  MS.  in 
the  British  Museum.     Printed  for  the  Camden  Society, 1859,  page  141- 


6  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY    OF   WHITCHURCH. 

"  Quarterly,  i  and  4,  Cheeky,  or  and  azure,  on 
a  bend  gules  a  lion   passant  or  [Brooke]  ; 

2  and  3,  Argent,  a  fess  embattled  sable,  in 
chief  two  estoils  of  the  second  [Twyne]  ; 
impaling. 

"  Quarterly,    i,   and  4,  a  chevron  vert  between 
three  bugle-horns,  sable  [Forster]  ;  2  gone ; 

3  Argent,  on  a  bend  sable  three  martlets 
or.  Crest,  on  a  wreath  azure  and  or,  a  demi- 
lion  erased  or."5 

The  monument  is  in  the  belfry,  and  is  made  of  the 
stone  of  the  neighborhood.  They  lie  outstretched 
side  by  side  ;  their  heads,  collars,  hands,  and  cuffs  are 
white  ;  the  rest  of  their  dress  is  black,  except  that  the 
middle  of  her  gown  in  front  from  top  to  bottom  is  a 
lio^ht  red. 

Susan  Forster's  father.  Sir  Thomas  Forster,  was 
born  about  1569,  and  belonged  to  the  Forster  family  of 
Northumberland;^  he  was  spoken  of  first  in  1587  as 


■''  Diary  of  the  Marches  of  the  Royal  Army  during  the  great  Civil  War, 
kept  by  Richard  Symotids,  nozv  first  published  from  the  original  MS.  in 
the  British  Museum.  Printed  for  the  Catnden  Society,  iS^g,  page  142. 
The  additions  in  brackets  were  made  by  the  Editor,  Charles  Edward 
Long,  M.  A. 

'''  The  fudges  of  England,  by  Edward  Foss,  London,  1857  ;  Vol.  VL, 

157. 

Sir  Thomas  Forster  was  the  son  of  Thomas  Forster  of  Hunsdon  in 
Co.   Hertford,  and  grandson  of  Roger  Forster  of  the  Forsters  of  North- 


3f,aK€^!«'^'^'' 


SIR    THOMAS    FORSTER.  7 

a  barrister  in  both  Coke's  and  Croke's  Reports  ;  he 
became  a  reader  of  the  Society  of  the  Inner  Temple  in 
1596;  he  was  called  on  November  24th,  1607,  to  the 
bench  as  judge  of  the  Common  Pleas,  and  sat  in  that 
Court  for  four  years  and  a  half;   he  died  May  i8th, 
1612,  andwas  buried  at  Hunsdon,  in  Herefordshire. 
Thomas  Sutton  named  him  one  of  the  first  governors  of 
his  hospital — the  Charter  House.^     His  youngest  son, 
Robert  Forster,  was  created  January  27th,  1640,  judge 
of  the  Common  Pleas,  but  as  he  adhered  during  the 
Civil  War  to  the  Royal  cause,  he  was  deposed  from 
the  bench.     After  the  restoration,  Charles  the  Second 
recalled  him  to  his  seat,  and  on   October  21st,  1660, 
appointed   him    Chief-Justice   of  the    King's    Bench  ; 
this  office  he  held  until  his  death,  October  4th,  1663. 
He  was  buried  in  the  church  at  Egham.^ 

umberland.  Anns:  Quarterly,  first  and  fourth,  ar.  a  chev,  vert,  be- 
tween three  bugle  horns,  stringed,  sa.  ;  second,  ar.  on  a  bend  sa.  three 
martlets  or ;  third,  ar.  on  a  bend  engr.  sa.  three  stags'  heads  cabossed  or.— 
Crest:  A  stag,  statant,  sa.  horned  or.  William  Berry's  County  Ceneat- 
ogies.    Sussex.     London  1830,  page  192. 

The  wife  of  Sir  Thomas  Forster  was  Susan  Forster,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Forster  of  Iden  in  Co.  Sussex,  and  of  St.  John's  Street,  London.  3., 
page  192. 

'10  Coke's  Reports,  loa. 

«  The  Judges  of  England,  by  Edward  Foss,  London,  1864  ;  Vol.  VIL, 
97-99- 

Alumni  Oxonienses,  by  Joseph  Foster,  London,  1891  ;  early  series, 
Vol.  IL 


8  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY   OF    WHITCHURCH. 

Symonds  in   his  diary  thus  speaks  of  Charles  the 
First's  stay  at  the  Brooke  house  : 
"Friday,  i8  October,  1644. 

*  *  *  *  H:  *  * 

"This  night  the  King  lay  at  the  White  hart  in 
Andevor  ;   the  whole  arrhy  in  the  feild. 

"Satterday,  as  soone  as  light,  the  army  marched 
after  the  enemy.  The  King  lay  at  Whitchurch  at 
Mr.  Brookes  his  howse  that  niorht. 

o 

*  *  *  *  H:  *  * 

"  Munday  21  October.  His  Majestic,  &c.  left 
Whitchurch,  thegenerall  rendesvouz  upon  the  Downe 
near  Kingsmill's  howse  [at  Sidmonton]."^ 

Thomas  and  Susan   Brooke  had'° 


^  Symonds's  Diary  of  the  Marches  of  the  Royal  Army  During  the 
great  Civil  War,  pages  141,  142. 

^°  Extract  from  the  Parish  Register  at  Whitchurch  : 

"  1612.  Benjamin  Brooke  was  baptized  Sept  17  [brother  of  Robert  the 
emigrant]. 

"  1612.  Thomas  Brooke  Esq""  was  burried  Sept.  17th.  Susan  Brooke 
his  wife  was  burried  the  iSth  day  of  Sept  1612.  Both  are  burried  be- 
neath the  monument. 

"1642.  Thomas  the  sonne  of  Thomas  Brooke  Esq'-  was  baptized 
March  the  16  by  Wm.  Harding  Vicar. 

"  1643.  Thomas  son  of  Thos.  Brooke  Esq'  was  burried  Januarie  the 
22  by  John  Belchamber  Vicar. 

"  i6s3-  Thomas  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Brooke  was  baptized  Nov. 
2,  1653." 

''1665.  Thomas  Brooke  Esq'  was  burried  Jan  25  killed  by  lightening 
Jan  24  near  Winton  [Winchester]. 

"  1674.  Mrs.  Mary  Brooke  was  buried  July  29  [wife  of  Thomas  Brooke 
killed  in  1665]. 

Communicated  by  the  Rev.  H.  Edmund  Sharpe  of  Whitchurch  and 
Arthur  Spayd  Brooke  Esq. 


ACTING-GOVERNOR   ROBERT   BROOKE.  9 

1 .  Thomas  Brooke  of  Whitchurch,  the  eldest  son.  He  matric- 
ulated at  Oriel  College,  Oxford,  October  27th,  1615,  aged  sixteen 
years,  and  was  barrister  at  law  in  the  Inner  Temple  in  1623  as 
of  Whitchurch,  Hants,  gentleman.'^ 

2.  Richard  Brooke. 

3.  Robert  Brooke,  who  emigrated  to  Maryland  in  1650. 

4.  John  Brooke,  who  matriculated  at  Wadham  College  Ox- 
ford, May  nth,  1621,  aged  sixteen  years. ^ ^ 

5.  William  Brooke. 

6.  Humphry  Brooke,  who  was  a  citizen  of  London. 

7.  Charles  Brooke. 

8.  Susan  Brooke,  who  married  William  Havers  of  Thelveton 
Hall,  Co.  Norfolk. 

9.  Elizabeth  Brooke. 
ID.  Frances  Brooke. 

1 1 .  Benjamm  Brooke,  who  died  young. 

Robert  Brooke,  the  third  son  of  Thomas  Brooke 
and  Susan  Forster,  matriculated  at  Wadham  Colleo-e 
Oxford,  April  28th,  1618  ;  he  received  his  B.  A.  July 
6th,  1620,  and  M.  A.  April  24th,  1624.^3  He  married 
February  25th,  1627,  his  first  wife,  Mary  Baker, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Baker,  of  Battel,  Sussex.^-*    i^ 

1  ^Alumni  Oxo?iienses,  by  Joseph  Foster,  London,   1891,  early  series 
Vol.  I.  ' 

12^5.,  Vol.  I. 

'^  lb.,  Vol.  I. 

^  *  Thomas  Baker  was  the  son  of 
John  Baker,  of  Battel,  eldest  son  of 

John  Baker,  of  Duckings,  or  Ducking-house,  in  Withyham,  son  and 
heir,  temp.  Hen.  VIII.  (1509-1547)  of 
Henry  Baker,  of  Battel,  eldest  son,  temp.  Henry  VII.  (1485-1509)  of 
Thomas  Baker,  of  Battel,  son  and  heir,  temp.  Edw.  IV.  (1461-14S3)  of 


lO  THE   BROOKE    FAMILY   OF   WHITCHURCH. 

1635  ^^  married  his  second  wife,  Mary  Mainwaring 
(see  page  59).  He  left  the  following  memoran- 
dum of  himself  and  his  family,  which  Roger  Brooke 
Taney,  one  of  his  descendants  and  of  his  second  wife, 
Mary  Mainwaring,  gives  in  his  autobiography. '^ 

"  Robert  Brooke  was  born  at  London,  3d  June, 
1602,  being  Thursday,  between  10  and  11  of  the 
clock  in  the  forenoon,  being  Corpus  Christi  Day. 

"Mary  Baker,  born  at  Battel  in  Sussex. 

"Robert  Brooke  and  Mary  Baker  intermarried 
1627,  the  25th  of  February,  being  St.  Matthias'  Day 
and  Shrove  Monday. 

"  I.  Baker  Brooke,  eldest  son  to  Robert  and  Mary 
Brooke,  was  born  at  Battel,  November  the  i6th,  being 

John  Baker,  of  Battel,  son  and  heir,  temp.  Henry  VI.  11422-1461)  of 
John  Baker,  of  Battel,  son  and  heir,  temp.  Henry  IV.  (1399-1413)  of 
Simon  Baker,  of  Battel,  son  and  heir,  temp.  Rich.  II.  (i377-i399)  of 
John  Baker,  of  Battel,  in  Co.  Sussex,  49  Edw.  III.,  1375- 
Ari7is :  At.  a  tower,  between  three  keys,  erect,  sa. 
CresL-  On  a  tower,  sa.  an  arm,  embowed,  in  mail,  holding  in  the  hand 
a  flint-stone,  ppr. 

A  pedigree  ot  this  family,  with  the  above  coat  and  crest,  under  the 
hand  of  Sir  Richard  St.  George,  Clarencieux,  was  produced  at  the  Visi- 
tation of  Kent  in  1619.  William  Berry's  County  Genealogies,  Sussex. 
London  1830,  pages  225,  226. 

^"^ Memoir  of  Roger  Brooke  Taney,  LL.  D.,  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  1836- 1864.  By  Samuel  Tyler,  LL.  D., 
of  the  Maryland  Bar.  Baltimore  1872,  pages  22-25.  Chief  Justice  Taney 
was  born  March  17,  1777,  in  Calvert  Co.,  Md.  He  was  the  son  of  Michael 
Taney  and  Monica  Brooke,  daughter  of  Roger  Brooke,  the  third  in  suc- 
cession from  Robert  Brooke,  the  emigrant.  (/(5.,  20,  21).  He  died  in 
1864. 


ACTING-GOVERNOR    ROBERT   BROOKE.  I  I 

Sunday,  at  half  hour  past  9  o'clock  in  the  morning, 
being  new  moon  the  night  before,  and  was  baptized 
the  2d  day  of  December  following,  his  Uncle  Thomas 
Brooke,  and  his  Grandfather  Baker,  his  Godfathers, 
and  his  Aunt  Foster,  wife  to  Mr.  Robert  Foster,  his 
Godmother,  1628. 

"  2.  Mary  Brooke,  eldest  daughter  to  Robert 
Brooke  and  Mary  his  wife,  was  born  1630,  at  Battel, 
the  19th  day  of  February,  being  Saturday,  between 
2  and  3  of  the  clock  in  the  afternoon,  the  moon  being 
new  the  next  day,  and  was  baptized  the  Sunday  fol- 
lowing, her  Godfather  Mr.  Thomas  Foster,  of  Battel, 
and  her  Godmothers  her  Grandmother  Baker  and 
her  Cousin  Heath. 

"  3.  Thomas  Brooke,  second  son  to  Robert  Brooke 
and  Mary  his  wife,  was  born  at  Battel,  1632,  the  23d 
day  of  June,  being  Saturday,  a  quarter  of  an  hour 
past  2  o'clock  in  the  morning,  and  was  baptized  the 
3d  day  of  July  following,  his  Godfathers  Mr.  Chris- 
topher Dow  Dean,  of  Battel,  and  Mr.  Thomas  Bryan, 
of  Battel,  his  Godmother  Mrs.  Eliza  Foster,  wife  of 
Mr.  Goddard  Foster. 

"4.  Barbara  Brooke,  second  daughter  to  Robert 
Brooke  and  Mary  his  wife,  born  at  Whickham. 

"May  the  nth,  1635,  Robert  Brooke  (aforemen- 
tioned) was   married   to   Mary,  second   daughter   to 


12  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY   OF   WHITCHURCH. 

Rocrer  Mainwaring,  Doctor  of  Divinity  and  Dean  of 
Worcester,  which  Mary  was  born  at  St.  Giles-in-the- 
Fields,  London. 

"I.  Charles  Brooke,  eldest  son  of  Robert  Brooke 
and  Mary  his  wife,  was  born  at  St.  Giles-in-the-Fields, 
Middlesex,  3d  April,  1636,  between  11  and  12  o'clock 
in  the  forenoon,  being  Sunday,  and  was  baptized  the 
day  following,  his  Grandfather,  the  Bishop  of  St. 
David's  and  his  Uncle  Townley,  his  Godfathers,  and 
his  Aunt  Stedney  his  Godmother,  under  %  Jupiter 
3  min. 

"  2.  Roger  Brooke  was  born  the  20th  September, 
1637,  at  Bretnock  College,  between  11  and  12  o'clock 
at  night,  it  being  Wednesday,  and  was  baptized  the 
following  day,  his  Godfathers  the  Bishop  of  St.  David's 
and  his  Uncle  Stevens,  and  his  Aunt  Sarah  Mainwar- 
ing his  Godmother,  li  under  Jupiter  [see  page  61]. 

"  3.  Robert  Brooke  was  born  at  London,  in  St. 
Brides'  Parish,  April  21st,  1639,  half  an  hour  before 
I  of  the  clock  in  the  morning,  it  being  Sunday  and 
new  moon  two  days  after,  his  Godfather  my  Cousin 
Thomas  Foster  {%  under  Jupiter),  son  to  Serecant 
Foster  and  my  Cousin  William  Brooke,  and  his  God- 
mother my  sister  Elizabeth. 

"4.  John  Brooke,  born  at  Battel,  the  20th  Septem- 
ber, 1640,  being  Sunday,  between  i  and  2  o'clock  in 


ACTING-GOVERNOR    ROBERT    BROOKE.  1 3 

the  afternoon,  his  Godfather  William  Jackson,  D.  P., 
and  his  Godmother  Mrs.  Jackson. 

"5.  Mary  Brooke  was  born  at  Battel  the  14th  day 
of  April,  being  Thursday,  1642,  after  i  o'clock  in  the 
morning,  the  moon  being  in  the  last  quarter  the 
Tuesday  before,  her  Godfather  Mr.  Jackson,  and  her 
Godmother  old  Mrs.  Beneford. 

"6.  William  Brooke,  born  at  Battel  the  ist  day 
of  December,  1643.  between  11  and  12  o'clock  at 
night,  the  moon  being  new  in  the  morning  at  5,  and 
baptized  the  same  day,  his  Godfather  Mr.  March  and 
his  Godmother  Mrs.  Pound. 

"7.  Ann  Brooke,  born  at  Bretnock,  22d  January, 
1645,  between  5  and  6  of  the  clock  at  night,  being 
Thursday,  her  Godfather  the  Bishop  of  St.  David's,  his 
Deputy  her  Uncle  Henry  Mellyne,  her  Godmothers 
Mrs.  Mary  Mainwaring  and  Mrs.  Jones,  $  under 
Venus. 

"8.  Francis  Brooke,  born  at  Horwett  in  Hant- 
shire,  the  30th  May,  1648,  being  Tuesday,  between 
II   and  12  o'clock,  at  noon,  D  under  Luna. 

"The  before-named  Robert  Brooke,  Esquire,  ar- 
rived out  of  England  in  Maryland  the  29th  day  of 
June,  1650,  in  the  48th  year  of  his  age,  with  his  wife 
and  ten  children.  He  was  the  first  that  did  seat  the 
Patuxent,  about  twenty  miles  up  the   river  at   De  la 


14  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY   OF   WHITCHURCH. 

Brooke,  and  had  one  son  there,  born  in  1651,  called 
Basil,  who  died  the  same  day.  In  1652  he  removed 
to  Brooke  Place,  being  right  against  De  la  Brooke ; 
and  on  the  28th  of  November,  1655,  between  3  and 
4  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  had  two  children  Eliza 
and  Henry,  twins.  He  departed  this  world  the  20th 
day  of  July,  and  lieth  buried  at  Brooke  Place  Manor  ; 
and  his  wife,  Mary  Brooke,  departed  this  life  the  29th 
November,  1663."'^ 

On  September  20th,  1649,  Lord  Baltimore  commis- 
sioned Robert  Brooke  commander  of  a  new  county 
in  Maryland  with  full  powers  to  levy  and  command 
troops,  grant  commissions,  hold  court,  etc.  This 
commission  was  in  part  as  follows :  "  Cecilius  Abso- 
lute Lord  and  Proprietary  of  the  Provinces  of  Mary- 
land and  Avalon  Lord  Baron  of  Baltimore,  &c''.  to 
our  right  trusty  and  well  beloved  William  Stone,  Esqr. 
our  Lieutenant  of   the  said  Province  of   MaryF. 

Greeting  whereas  our  trusty  and  well  Beloved 
Robert  Brooke  Esqr.  doth  this  next  Summers  Ex- 
pedition  intend   to  transport  himself  his  Wife  Eight 

16"  The  foregoing  is  a  true  copy  taken  from  my  grandfather's  book  of 
his  own  handwriting  and  his  eldest  son  Baker  after  his  decease,  this  2nd 
day  of  October  1710,  by  me 

Roger  Brooke." 

This  Roger  Brooke  married  Elizabeth  Hutchins  (see  page  62.) 
Communicated  by  Arthur  Spayd  Brooke,  Esq. 


ACTING-GOVERNOR    ROBERT    BROOKE.  I  5 

Sons  and  family  and  a  Great  Number  of  other  Persons 
into  our  said  Province  of  Maryland  there  to  erect 
make  and  settle  a  Considerable  Plantation  now  we 
having  good  Experience  of  the  Honour  worth  and 
abilities  of  the  said  Robert  Brooke  and  of  his  faithful- 
ness to  us  and  his  real  desires  and  intentions  for  the 
Good  and  Prosperity  of  our  said  Province  Know  yee 
that  we  do  hereby  Constitute  and  appoint  him  the 
said  Robert  Brooke  to  be  Commander  under  us  and 
our  heirs  and  our  and  their  Lieutenant  of  the  said 
Province  for  the  time  being  of  one  whole  County 
within  our  said  Province  of  Maryland  to  be  newly 
set  forth  erected  Nominated  and  Appointed  for  that 
Purpose,"  etc.'''  At  the  same  time  Lord  Baltimore 
appointed  Robert  Brooke  a  member  of  the  Privy 
Council  of  Maryland.'^  In  1650  he  came  over  to 
Maryland  in  his  own  ship  bringing  his  wife,  children, 
and  a  large  number  of  servants  with  him,  forty 
persons  in  all,'^  and  arrived  at  the  end  of  June.  On 
October  3rd  following,  Charles  County  on  the  Patux- 
ent  River  was  created  and  Robert  Brooke  named 
Commander.^" 


^''Archives  of  Maryland:  Proceedings  of  the  Council  of  Maryland, 
1636-1667.    Baltimore,  1885,  pages  237,  238. 
'^^Ib.y  240,  241, 
1^73.,  256. 
^"7^.,  259,  260. 


1 6  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY    OF    WHITCHURCH. 

The  Commissioners  of  the  Council  of  State  for  the 
Commonwealth  of  England,  who  were  sent  over  to 
reduce  the  Old  Dominion  to  the  authority  of  the 
Parliament,  by  a  proclamation  of  March  29th,  1652, 
deposed  William  Stone  from  the  governorship  of 
Maryland,  and  until  they  reinstated  him  on  the  28th 
of  June  following,  they  named  Robert  Brooke  Acting- 
Governor.  In  their  proclamation  they  said:  "That 
the  said  Council  of  Maryland  or  any  two  or  more 
of  them  whereof  Robert  Brooke  Esqr  to  be  one  do 
Govern  and  direct  the  Affairs  thereof  and  hold  Courts 
as  often  as  they  think  fit  for  that  purpose."^'  When 
Governor  Stone  was  reinstated,  Robert  Brooke  was 
continued  on  the  Council. 

Thomas  Brooke,  the  second  son  of  Robert  Brooke 
and  Mary  {nee  Baker)  Brooke,  was  born  at  Battel, 
England,  June  23rd,  1632,  and  came  over  to  Mary- 
land with  his  father.  On  June  3d,  1658,  the  Coun- 
cil of  Maryland  commissioned  him  a  Captain  in 
the  Maryland  forces,"  and  on  February  nth,  1660. 
the  following  commission  signed  by  Philip  Calvert, 
raised  him  to  the  rank  of  Major: 

"  Com"  issued  to  Cap"  Thomas  Brookes  to  be  Maior 


-'^Archives  of  Maryland:  Proceedings  of  the  Council  of  3Iarylatid, 
J636-1667.     Baltimore,  1S85,  pages  271,  272. 

2  2^5,,  pages  344-346. 


MAJOR   THOMAS    BROOKE,     1632-1676.  1 7 

of  the   Rec^iment  now  under  Comand  of  Coll"  W"^ 

Euans  and  power  to  inlist  for  his  owne  Company  such 

and  so  many  of  the  Jnhabitants  from  George  Reads 

on    the    Southside   and    S'  Leonards    Creeke  on  the 

Northside   to   the   head    of    Patuxent   Riuer,  as    hee 

shall  thinke  fitt  Giuen  &c  Vnder  my  hand  and  lesser 

Seale  of  the  said   Province  this  ii'^  day  of  ffebr  1660. 

with  power  to  choose  his  own   officers  of  his   ffoote 

Company. 

"P.  C."'^ 

On  June  14th,  1661,  Thomas  Brooke  was  appointed 
a  commissioner  for  Calvert  County  ;'4  September  15th, 
1663,  ^■'e  was  elected  a  Burgess  of  the  County,'^  and 
April  20th,  1666,  he  was  named  Sheriff  of  the 
County.'^  The  General  Assembly  appointed  Major 
Brooke  one  of  the  Commissioners  of  Maryland  to 
confer  with  Sir  William  Berkeley,  Governor  of 
Virginia,  and  William  Drummond,  Governor  of  the 
Southward  Plantations,  or  Commissioners  repre- 
senting   them,     to     prohibit,     on    account    of    over- 

'^^ Archives  of  Maryland:  Proceedings  of  the  Coimcil  of  Maryland, 
1636-1667.     Baltimore,  1885,  page  402. 

2  */<&.,  page  424. 

"^^  Archives  of  Maryland:  Proceedings  and  Acts  of  the  General  Assem- 
bly of  Maryland,  1637-1664.     Baltimore,  1883,  page  460. 

'^'^ Archives  of  Maryland:  Proceedings  of  the  Coimcil  of  Maryland, 
1636-1667.     Baltimore,  1885,  page  541. 


1 8  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY    OF    WHITCHURCH. 

production,  the  planting  of  tobacco  from  Febru- 
ary I  St,  1666,  to  February  ist,  1667.^^  ^^  February, 
1667,  he  took  part  in  an  expedition  against  the  In- 
dians. In  1673  he  was  still  a  Burgess  for  Calvert 
County.'^  Major  Brooke  died  in  1676.^5  His  wife  was 
Eleanor,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Margaret  Hatton, 
and  niece  of  Secretary  Thomas  Hatton  of  Maryland. 
The  eldest  son  of  Major  Brooke  and  his  wife, 
Eleanor  Hatton,  was  Colonel  Thomas  Brooke  of 
Brookfield,  Prince  George  County,  Maryland.  He 
was  Justice  of  the  Calvert  County  Court  in  1684,  and 
from  1689  to  1692,  and  was  Deputy-Commissary  for 
the  county  in  1686.  In  1697  he  was  one  of  the  Com- 
missioners to  treat  with  the  Piscataway  Indians.^"  He 
was  sworn  a  Justice  of  the  Provincial  Court  May  ist, 
1694,  and  was  appointed  Commissary-General  June 
5th,  1700.3'  On  June  26th,  1702,  he  was  named  Judge 
of  the  High  Court  of  Admiralty.  From  April,  1692, 
to  1707  and  again  from  1715  to  1724  he  was  a  mem- 

^"^  Archives  of  Maryland :  Proceedings  and  Acts  of  the  General  Assem- 
bly of  Maryland,  i666-i6j6.     Baltimore,  1S84,  page  143. 
^'^<5.,  pages  239,  422. 

2 "His  will  was  drawn  Oct,  25th,  1676,  and  proved  Dec.  29th,  1676. 
Will-Book  Liber  A — i6j6,  1677,  folio  123. 

Communicated  by  Mrs.  Jane  Baldwin,  of  Annapolis,  Maryland. 

^'^ Liber  H.  D.,  No.  2,  folio  525,  Maryland  Historical  Society,  Balti- 
more. 

•^  ^  Testatnentary  Proceedings  of  Prerogative  Court  for  last  note.  Liber 
XVIII.  B,  folio  /,  Register  of  Wills,  Annapolis, 


ACTING-GOVERNOR   THOMAS   BROOKE.  19- 

ber  of  the  Council  of  Maryland.^^  In  1720  he  was 
President  of  the  Council  and  Acting-Governor  of  the 
Province.  He  died  in  1730.33  As  Deputy  Governor, 
Colonel  Brooke  wrote  the  following  letter  to  the 
Bishop  of  London  : 

"Maryland,  i8th  July,  1720. 
"  My  Lord, 

"The  Government  here  being  in  me  at  present 
under  the  Lord  Proprietor,  I  take  it  to  be  my  indis- 
putable duty  to  do  all  I  can  to  promote  the  true 
interest  of  the  Church  of  England  established  in  this 
Province,  as  well  as  I  am  firmly  attached  to  it  by  my 
judgment  and  inclination. 

"I  with  great  pleasure  congratulate  your  Lordship 
on  the  happy  prospect  we  have  (by  the  good  conduct 
and  example  of  your  Commissary,  the  Rev^  Mr. 
Henderson)  of  putting  an  end  to  the  unhappy  dis- 
putes that  were  on  purpose  raised  among  the  Clergy 
about  matters  that  no  way  concerned  their  duty  (viz'), 
endeavours  to  misrepresent  our  Lord  Proprietor.  And 
I  can  with  great  truth  say  that  no  noblemen  can  do 

""^ Archives  of  Maryland:  Proceedings  of  the  Council  of  3faryland, 
1687I8-1693.  Baltimore,  1890,  pages  271-555,  passion.  Proceedings  and 
Acts  of  the  General  Assembly  of  Maryland,  1684-1692.  Baltimore,  1894, 
pages  253-360,  passim. 

^^Colonel  Thomas  Brooke's  will  was  proved  January  25th,  1731.  Will- 
Book  C.  C,  No.  3,  J730-1734,  folio  125  ;  Office  of  Register  of  Wills,  An- 
napolis, Md. 


20  THE   BROOKE    FAMILY    OF    WHITCHURCH. 

more  than  his  Lordship  has  done  to  convince  us  all 
of  his  regard  and  zeal  for  the  Protestant  religion  and 
Interest. 

"As  this  is  an  happy  prospect,  and  promises  me 
much  ease  and  satisfaction  so  long  as  I  shall  have  the 
honor  of  governing,  so  I  humbly  pray  your  Lordship's 
assistance  to  perfect  so  good  beginnings  by  your 
paternal  Injunctions  to  the  Clergy  to  promote  and 
forward  them.  They  shall  never  want  what  service 
I  can  do  them,  nor  shall  I  omit  any  opportunity  to 
demonstrate  that 

"I  am,  my  Lord,  &c., 

"THOS  BROOKE."34 

Colonel   Brooke   married   first   Anne  ,  who 

joined  him  in  a  deed  dated  Feb.  23rd,  1687. 
They  had 

1.  Thomas  Brooke,  who  married  Lucy  Smith. 

2.  Eleanor  Brooke,  who  married  first  John  Tasker,  and 
second  Charles  Sewall. 

3.  Sarah  Brooke,  who  married  Philip  Lee. 

Colonel  Brooke  married  second  Barbara  (born  in 
1676    and    died    in    1754)35,    youngest   daughter   of 


^*William  Stevens  Perry's  American  Colonial  Church,  Vol.  IV.,  Mary- 
land, page  125.    Privately  printed,  1878.    See  also  pages  121,  122. 

3  5The  will  of  Barbara  Brooke,  widow,  was  drawn  Feb.  4th,  1748-9, 
and  sworn  to  January  26th,  1754.  Record  of  Wills,  No.  i,  folio  470, 
Prince  George  County,  Md. 


ACTING-GOVERNOR   THOMAS    BROOKE.  21 

Thomas  Dent,  of  St.  Mary's  County,  and  Rebeccas^ 
his  wife,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  WilHam  Wilkinson. 
Thomas  Brooke  and  Barbara  Dent  were  married  be- 
fore January  4th,  1 699-1 700,  for  on  that  date  she  joins 
him  in  a  deed.^^ 

Colonel  Brooke  and  Barbara  Dent,  his  second  wife, 
had  issue,  but  the  order  of  birth  is  not  certain,  the  fol- 
lowing children  -.^^ 

Thomas  Brooke. 

Nathaniel  Brooke. 

John  Brooke. 

Benjamin  Brooke. 

Baker  Brooke. 

Mary  Brooke,  who  married  Dr.  Patrick  Sim,  of  Prince  George 

County. 
Rebecca  Brooke,  who  married  John  Howard  of  Charles  County. 
Priscilla  Brooke,  who  married  Thomas  Gantt. 
Jane  Brooke,  who  married  Alexander  Contee. 
Elizabeth  Brooke,  who  married  Colonel  George  Beall. 
Lucy  Brooke,  who  married  Thomas  Hodgkin. 

'*'*Thomas  Dent  died  in  1676;  Rebecca,  his  widow,  married  secondly 
Mr.  John  Adison,  also  mentioned  as  Coloriel  John  Adison,  of  Charles 
and  St.  Mary's  Counties,  as  his  property  was  in  both  counties.  On 
October  19th,  1677,  she  was  cited  to  account  for  her  execudon  of  the 
estate  of  her  late  husband,  Thomas  Dent,  and  craved  time  until  her 
husband,  Colonel  John  Adison,  returned  to  the  province;  this  re- 
quest was  granted.  {Testamentary  Proceedijigs,  No.  IX.,  folio  374, 
Annapolis. ) 

Communicated  by  Mrs.  Jane  Baldwin.  Annapolis,  Maryland. 

^'' Liber  A,  folio  210.  Records  of  Prince  George  County,  Md.  She 
also  joined  him  in  a  deed  November  6th,  1730.  Liber  Q,  folio  124, 
Records  of  Prince  George  County. 

^^'The  names  of  the  children  of  Colonel  and  Mrs.  Brooke  were  com- 
municated by  Mrs.  Jane  Baldwin  of  Annapolis,  Md. 


2  2  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY    OF   WHITCHURCH. 

Elizabeth  Brooke,  daughter  of  Colonel  Thomas 
Brooke  and  Barbara  Dent,  his  second  wife,  married 
Colonel  George  Beall^^  of  Prince  George  County,  the 
youngest  of  the  twelve  children  of  Colonel  Ninian  Beall. 

Colonel  Ninian  Beall  was  born  in  1625,^^°  in  Scot- 
land, probably  either  in  Fifeshire  or  Dumbartonshire. 

««"At  the  request  of  Mary  Beall  the  following  Deed  of  Gift  was 
Recorded  April  2d  Anno  Domini  1751 — 

"  Maryland  SS.  Prince  Georges  County  To  all  Christian  People  to 
whom  these  presents  shall  come  I  Barbara  Brooke  of  the  same  County 
and  Province  afd.  send  Greeting.  Know  ye  that  I  the  said  Barbara 
Brooke  for  and  in  Consideration  of  the  Natural  Love  and  Affection  which 
I  have  and  do  bear  to  my  Grand  Daughter  Mary  Beall  (Daughter  of  Eliza- 
beth &  George  Beall  my  son  in  Law)  as  well  as  Five  shillings  Current 
money  in  hand  paid  as  for  Divers  other  good  Causes  and  Considerations 
me  thereunto  more  Especially  moving  hath  Given  and  Granted  by  these 
Presents  doth  Give  Grant  and  confirm  unto  my  said  Grand  Daughter 
Mary  Beall  one  Negroe  Girl  named  Rebeccah  and  her  Increase  To  her  the 
said  Mary  Beall  and  her  heirs  for  ever.  To  have  and  To  hold  the  afd 
Negroe  Girl  and  her  Increase  to  my  said  Grand  Daughter  Mary  Beall  and 
the  Heirs  of  her  Body  Lawfully  Begotten.  But  if  my  said  Grand  Daughter 
Mary  Beall  should  Die  before  she  comes  of  Age  or  have  Lawfull  Issue 
then  I  do  Give  Grant  and  Confirm  the  Beforementioned  Negroe  Girl 
and  her  Increase  To  my  Grand  son  Thomas  Brooke  Beall,  and  to  the 
Heirs  of  his  Body  Lawfully  Begotten  but  in  case  of  Default  of  such  Issue 
I  do  Give  and  Grant  the  afd  Negroe  Girl  and  her  Increase  to  my  Grand 
son  Patrick  Beall  and  the  Heirs  of  his  Body  Lawfully  Begotten  for  ever. 
And  in  Case  of  Default  of  such  Issue  then  I  do  hereby  Give  and  Grant  the 
afd  Negroe  Girl  and  her  Increase  unto  the  Heirs  of  me  the  said  Barbara 
Brooke.  In  Witness  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  affixed 
my  seal  this  second  day  of  April  Anno  Domini  1751. 

her 
"BARBARA  X  BROOKE." 
mark 

IJder  C  folio  11 1,  Prince  George  County  Records  at  Marlboro.  Com- 
municated by  Mrs.  Jane  Baldwin  of  Annapolis. 

■^''Chancery  Records  {iji2-iT24),  page  42,  in  Maryland  Land  Office, 
Annapolis. 


COLONEL    NINIAN    BEALL,     1625-1717.  23 

He  was  in  the  Scottish  army  which  fought  against 
Cromwell  at  the  battle  of  Dunbar  in  1650,  where 
he  was  taken  prisoner  and  soon  after  transported 
to  Maryland,  where  he  lived,  first  in  Calvert  County 
and  afterwards  in  Prince  George  County.'^'  Of  a 
strong  character,  he  became  in  a  short  time,  with 
his  knowledge  of  arms,  a  man  of  importance  in  the 
miltiary  forces  of  the  province.  He  was  very  busy 
fighting  the  Indians  until  the  end  of  his  life,  rising 
higher  and  higher  until  he  became  a  full   Colonel.'*^ 

•'iThere  is  a  record  of  him  in  the  Maryland  Land  Office  of  the  year 
1658  {Liber  5  Folio  416).  By  the  family  and  in  Georgetown  the 
name  Beall,  is  pronounced  as  if  it  were  spelt  "bell."  Although  the 
scribes  at  Annapolis  spelt  Ninian  Beall's  name  in  many  ways,  his  de- 
scendants now  all  spell  the  name,  "Beall."  He  and  his  family  should 
not  be  confounded  with  the  following  seven  emigrants  and  their  de- 
scendants :  Liber.  Folio. 

Beal,    John,    transported 1658        D.      211 

Beale,     "  "  165S 

Susan,  "  1676 

Thomas,        "  1666 

"        of  St.  Mary's,  Service   .    .    .      1672 

William,  transported 1664 

"  "  1671 

4  2  At  a  meeting  of  the  Governor  and  Council  on  May  2olh,  1692,  the 

following  letter  was  read  : 

"May  the  igth  1692  Western  Branch. 
"May  it  Please  your  Excellency 

"I  have  here  sent  you  the  news  inclosed  that  came  to  me,  I  am 
Just  now  going  up,  and  will  be  as  Careful!  as  I  can  till  further  Order 
from  your  Honour  and  Council  I  do  intend  to  keep  out  Ranging  back 
of  the  Plantations  till  further  Orders  in  hast  I  remain 


12 

551 

15 

7,^9 

9 

436 

17 

57 

6 

296 

16 

400 

"  To  his  Excellency  the  Capt  Genl 
&  Chief  Governor  in  and  over 
the  Province  of  Maryland. 


Your   Excellencys  Servant  to 
Command  whilst  I  am 

"NINIAN  BEALE." 


The  enclosure  spoken  of  in  the  above  letter  referred  to  an  Indian  attack. 
Archives  of  Maryland:  Proceeditigs  a7id  Acts  of  the  General  Assembly 
of  Maryland,  /684-1692.     Baltimore,  1894,  page  282. 


24  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY   OF    WHITCHURCH. 

On  July  22d,  1699,  the  Maryland  Assembly  passed 
the  following  act  in  recognition  of  his  services  : 

"  An  Act  of  Gratitude  to  Col.  Ninian  Beall.  Lib. 
L  L.  No.  2.  fol.  p.  228.  PR. 

"  Viz.  For  his  Services  upon  all  Incursions  and  Dis- 
turbances of  the  Neighboring  Indians,  75  1.  Sterling,  to 
be  laid  out  for  3  serviceable  Negroes,  to  him  and  to 
his  Wife  during  their  Lives,  and  afterwards  to  their 
Children.  The  said  Negroes  and  their  Increase  not 
to  be  subject  to  any  Executions  or  Judgments  during 
the  Life  of  Mr.  Beall,  or  his  Wife."« 

He  became  the  owner  of  many  tracts  of  land,  some 
of  rather  large  extent.  In  1703  he  received  the  fol- 
lowing grant  from  Lord  Baltimore,  which  included 
much  of  the  ground  upon  which  Georgetown  now 
stands : 

"Ninian  Beales  Patt  795  acres  Rock  of  Dumbar- 
ton"^ 

"  Cert  Lib.  D.  D. 

"  Charles  absolute  Lord  and  propry  of  the  Province 
of  Maryland,  To  all  etc.,  know  yee  that  for  and  in 
Consederation  that  Ninian  Beale  of  Prince  Georges 

o 

County  hath  due  unto  him  seven  hundred  and  ninety 

*^Laws  of  Maryland  at  large,  1637-1763,  Annapolis  ;  printed  by  Jonas 
Green,  Printer  to  the  Province,  1765.    Chapter  XX. 

^"^ Liber  C.  D.,  folio  121.    Maryland  Land  Office  at  Annapolis. 


COLONEL   NINIAN    BEALL,     1625-1717.  25 

five  acres  of  land  within  our  said  Province  being  due 
unto  him  by  virtue  of   a  warrant  for  five  hundred 
acres,  granted  him  the  nineteenth  day  of  May,  one 
thousand  seven  hundred  and  two  and  another  warrant 
for  nine  hundred  and  twenty  acres  granted  him  the 
sixth  day  of  May,  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and 
two   as   appears  in  our  Land  office  and  upon   such 
Conditions  and  terms  as  are  expressed  in  our  Con- 
ditions of  Plantacons  of  our  said   Province  bearing 
date  the  fifth  day  of  April  one  thousand  six  hundred 
eighty  and  four  and  remaining  upon   record  in   our 
said  province  together  with  such  alteracons  as  in  them 
are  made  by  our  further  Condicons  bearing  date  the 
fourth  day  of  December  one  thousand  six  hundred 
ninety  and  six  and  registered  in  our  land   office   of 
our  said  province,  Wee  doe  therefore  hereby  grant 
unto  him   the  said   Ninian   Beale   all   that   Tract   or 
parcell  of  land  called  Rock  of   Dumbarton  lying   in 
the  said  County  Beginning  at  the  South  last  corner 
Tree,   of  a  Tract  of   land  taken  for  Robert  Mason 
standing  by   Potomeck   River  side  at   the  mouth  of 
Rock  Creek  on  a  point  running  thence  with  the  said 
land  North  North  West,   six  hundred  and  forty  ps. 
thence  last  three  hundred  and  twenty  ps.  then  South 
six  deg:  and  a  half  Easterly  four  hundred  ps.   then 
with  the  straight  line  by  the  Creek  and  River  to  the 


26  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY   OF    WHITCHURCH. 

first  bound.  Containing  and  then  laid  out  for  seven 
hundred  ninety  and  five  acres,  more  or  less  according 
to  the  Cert,  thereof  of  Survey  taken  and  returned 
into  our  land  Office  bearing  date  the  fourth  day  of 
November  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  two  and 
there  remaining  together  with  all  rights  profits  bene- 
fits and  priveledges  thereunto  belonging  Royall  mines 
excepted  To  have  and  to  hold  the  same  unto  him  the 
said  Ninian  Beale  his  heirs  and  assio^ns  forever  to  be 
holden  of  us  and  our  heirs  as  of  our  mannor  of 
Calverton  in  free  and  Common  Soccage  by  fealty 
only  for  all  manner  of  Services  yielding  and  paying 
therefore  yearly  unto  us  and  our  heirs  at  our  receipt 
at  the  City  of  S' Maries  at  the  two  most  usuall  feasts 
in  the  year  Viz.  at  the  feast  of  the  Annuncacon  of  the 
blessed  Virgin  Mary  and  S'Michaell  the  archangell, 
by  even  and  equal  porcons  the  rent  of  one  pound 
eleven  shilK  and  nine  pence  half  penny  Ster:  in 
silver  or  gold  and  for  a  fine  upon  every  alienacon  of 
the  said  land  or  any  part  or  parcell  thereof  one  whole 
year  rent  in  silver  or  gold  or  the  full  value  thereof  in 
such  Commodities  as  wee  and  our  heirs  or  such 
Officer  as  shall  be  appointed  by  us  and  our  heirs 
from  time  to  time  to  Collect  and  receive  the  same 
shall  accept  in  discharge  thereof  at  the  choice  of  us 
and  our  heirs  or  such  officer  or  officers    as  aforesd 


COLONEL    NINIAN    BEALL,     1625-1717.  27 

provided  that  if  the  paid  sume  for  a  fine  for  ahenation 
shall  not  be  paid  to  us  and  our  heirs  or  such  officer 
or  Officers  as  afore  said  before  such  alienacon  and  the 
said  alienacon  entred  upon  Record  either  in  the 
provinciall  Court  or  in  the  County  Court  where  the 
same  parcell  of  land  lyeth  within  one  month  next 
after  such  alienacon  the  said  alienacon  shall  be  void 
of  no  effect  Given  under  our  greater  seale  at  arms, 
this  eighteenth  day  of  November,  one  thousand  seven 
hundred  and  three.  Witness  our  Trusty  and  well 
beloved  Coll  Henry  Darnall  keeper  of  our  said 
greater  seale  in  our  said  Province  of  Maryland/'^s 

Ninian  Beall's  will,  which  is  on  record  at  Annapolis, 
is  as  follows : 

"In  the  Name  of  God  Amen. 

"I  Ninian  Beall  of  Prince  Georges  County  in  the 
Province  of  Maryland  being  indisposed  in  Body  but 
of  sound  and  perfect  memory  God  be  praised  for 
the  same  and  considering  the  Mortality  of  humane, 
Nature  and  uncertainty  of  life  doe  make  ordain  con- 
stitute and  appoint  this  to  be  my  last  Will  and  Testa- 
ment in  manner  and  forme  following  Viz' 

^^  "The  Cal verts  made  many  other  grants  to  Ninian  Beall ;  for  instance, 
"  Bellfast  "  in  Calvert  County  was  a  grant  September  13th,  1683,  to  "Cap- 
tain Ninian  Beale"  by  "Charles  Absolute  Lord  and  Propty.  of  the 
Provmce  of  Maryland  and  Avalon  Lord  Baron  of  Baltimore  etc  " 
Liber  S.  £>.,  No.  A,  folio  i.     Maryland  Land  Office,  Annapolis. 


28  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY   OF   WHITCHURCH. 

"  Impris,  I  give  and  bequeath  my  soul  into  the 
hands  of  Almighty  God  in  hopes  of  free  pardon  for 
all  my  sins  and  as  for  my  Body  to  be  committed  to 
the  Earth  from  whence  it  came  to  be  decently  buried 
at  the  Discretion  of  my  trustees  hereafter  mentioned. 

"  Item  I  will  and  bequeath  that,  all  my  Debts  and 
funeral  charges  be  first  paid  and  satisfyed  and  as 
for  what  portion  of  my  worldly  goods  as  shall  be  then 
remaining  I  bequeath  and  bestow  the  same  in  manner 
following. 

"  Item.  I  doe  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  son 
George  my  plantation  and  Tract  of  land  called  the 
Rock  of  Dunbarton  lying  and  being  at  Rock  Creek 
and  containing  four  hundred  and  eighty  acres  with  all 
the  stock  thereon  both  catde  and  Hoggs  them  and 
their,  increase  unto  my  said  son  George  and  unto  his 
heirs  for  ever. 

*'  Item,  I  doe  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  said  son 
George  Beall  his  choice  of  one  of  my  feather  beds 
bolster  and  Pillow  and  other  furniture  thereunto 
belonging  with  two  Cows  and  calves  and  half  my 
sheep  from  off  this  plantation,  I  now  live  on  unto  him 
and  his  heirs  for  ever. 

"Item,  I  doe  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  son  in 
Law  Andrew  Hambleton  my  negro  woman  Alic  unto 
him  and  his  heirs  for  ever. 


COLONEL   NINIAN    BEALL,    1625-1717.  29 

"Item,  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  Grand- 
daughter Mary  Beall  the  daughter  of  my  son  Ninian 
Beall  deceased  the  one  half  part  of  all  my  moveables 
or  personal  estate  as  Cattle  and  Hogs  Horses  House- 
hold goods  after  my  Legacyes  before  bequeathed  are 
paid  and  satisfied  unto  her  the  said  Mary  and  to 
her  heirs  for  ever. 

"Item  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  said  Grand- 
daughter Mary  Beall  all  that  part  of  Bacon  Hall  that 
lyeth  on  the  south  side  of  the  road  that  goeth  to  Mount 
Calvert  to  her  the  said  Mary  and  unto  her  heirs  for  ever. 

"Item  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  Grandson 
Samuel  Beall  all  the  remainder  part  of  Bacon  Hall 
together  with  the  Plantation  and  Orchyard  and 
tobacco  houses  thereunto  belonging  (with  this  proviso) 
that  when  he  comes  to  the  age  of  one  and  twenty 
that  he  make  over  by  a  firm  conveyance  all  his,  right 
and  tide  that  he  hath  unto  a  certain  Tract  of  land  called 
Sanes  [or  Sams]  Beginning  on  the  south  side  of  the 
said  road  goeing  to  Mount  Calvert  unto  the  said  Mary 
and  unto  her  heirs  for  ever  but  if  my  said  Grandson 
should  happen  to  dye  before  he  arrive  to  be  of  that 
age  to  make  over  the  land  soe  as  aforesaid  then  I  do 
give  &  bequeath  unto  my  said  Granddaughter  Mary 
the  whole  Tract  of  Bacon  Hall  with  the  houses  and 
Orchyard  thereon  unto  her  and  her  heirs  for  ever. 


30  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY   OF    WHITCHURCH. 

"  Item  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  s'^  Grandson 
Samuel  Beall  my  Water  Mill  Lying  upon  Collington 
Branch  with  the  stones  Iron  work  houses  and  all 
other  Matterealls,  thereunto  belonging  unto  the  said 
Samuel  and  unto  his  heirs  for  ever. 

"  Item  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  Son  in  Law 
Joseph  Belt^^  part  of  a  tract  of  land  called  Good 
Luck  containing  two  hundred  forty  five  acres  he 
allowing  unto  my  heirs  the  sum  of  four  thousand 
pounds  of  tobacco  according  to  our  former  agree- 
ment he  deducting  what  I  doe  owe  him  on  his  books 
for  severall  wares  and  merchandizes  had  of  him  to  the 
said  Joseph  and  unto  his  heirs  for 

"Item  that  whereas  I  owe  several  debts  I  doe 
empower  my  trustees  hereafter  named  to  enable  them 
to  pay  the  same  to  sell  a  certain  Tract  of  land  called 
the  Recovery  lying  and  being  in  the  freshes  of  Patux- 
ent  River  near  the  head  of  the  Western  Branch  to  be 
sold  it  containing  four  hundred  acres,  the  aforesaid 
tract  of  land  bequeathed  unto  my  son  Belt  is  ad- 
joining there  unto 

"  Item  I  doe  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  son 
Charles  Beall  a  Book  of  Bishop  Coopers  work  the 
acts  of  the  Church  and  the  Chronicles  of  King  Charles 
the   first  and  King  Charles    the   second,  and   I   doe 

*^  Miss  Catherine  Dulany  Belt  says  his  wife  was  Margery  Beall. 


COLONEL   NINIAN    BEALL,     1625-I717.  3 1 

request  and  oblige  my  son  Charles  my  Bell  and  my 
son  George  to  son  to  send  for  a  Dozen  of  books 
entitled  an  advise  to  young  and  old  and  middle  age 
set  forth  by  one  Mr  Christopher  Ness,  the  books  to 
be  distributed  among  my  Grand  children  and  God 
sons. 

"Item  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  son  Charles 
a  thousand  acres  of  land  called  Dunn  Back  lying  on 
the  South  side  of  great  Choptank  in  a  Creek  called 
Wattses  Creek  unto  him  and  his  heirs  forever 

"  And  lastly  I  do  make  ordain  Declare  and  appoint 
my  Grandson  Samuel  Bell  to  be  my  sole  and  whole 
Executor  of  this  my  last  will  &  testament  and  I  doe 
devise  my  loving  son  Charles  Bell  Joseph  Belt  and 
George  Bell  to  doe  and  perform  my  devise  as  above 
exprest  and  to  act  &  doe  for  my  executor  until  he 
shall  arrive  to  the  age  of  one  and  twenty  hereby 
revoking  and  annulling  all  former  and  other  wills  by 
me  at  any  time  heretofore  made  and  signed.  And 
doe  desire  my  said  sons  to  use  their  best  care  and 
endeavour  that  my  two  Grand  Children  the  Children 
of  my  beloved  son  Ninian  Beall  deceased  to  be 
brought  up  and  have  that  education  suitable  to  their 
estate,  I  doe  also  appoint  my  said  sons  Trustees  to 
this  my  will  to  make  their  appearance  every  Easter 
Tuesday  or    any   other    time    as    they    shall    think    a 


32  THE   BROOKE    FAMILY    OF    WHITCHURCH. 

more  fitting  time  at  my  dwelling  plantation  yearly 
to  inspect  into  all  affairs  thereof  and  of  a  yearly 
increase  of  all  the  Creatures  upon  my  plantation 
and  at  the  Mill  for  and  on  the  behalf  of  my  two  Grand 
Children  who  are  to  be  joint  Sharers  therein  my  Grand- 
daughter to  have  her  part  at  the  day  of  her  Marriage. 
"In  testimony  whereof  I  have  to  this  my  last  will 
and  testament  set  my  hand  &  seal  this  fifteenth  day 
of  January  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  God  one  thousand 
seven  hundred  and  seventeen. 

The  mark  of 

"NINIAN  X  BEALL.     [seal]"^^ 

Though  Ninian  Beall  made  his  mark  to  his  will^ 
he  was  a  man  of  education  for  those  days,  since  he 
signed  his  name  often,  as  is  shown  by  the  records  at 
Annapolis.  He  died  in  the  year  171 7  in  his  ninety- 
third  year. 

^'' Liber  JV.  B.  No.  6,  folio  504  +  c.  Register  of  Wills  for  Anne 
Arundel  County,  Maryland. 

There  are  on  record  at  Marlboro,  Prince  George  County,  Md.,  a 
number  of  deeds  of  gift  from  "Coll.  Ninian  Beall  And  Ruth  his  Wife," 
dated  March  loth,  1706.  These  deeds  mention  their  sons  Charles, 
Ninian  Jr.,  Thomas,  John  and  George,  and  their  daughters  Hester,  Mary 
and  Rechell.     Liber  C,  folio  185,  186. 

James  Moore  in  a  deposition,  August  i6th,  1708,  speaks  of  Colonel 
Ninian  Beall  as  his  brother.  Liber  P.  C.  2.  Chancery  Records  (1671-1712) 
page  626,  Annapolis,  Md.  Mrs.  Henry  Irvine  Keyser  of  Baltimore,  a 
descendant  of  Colonel  Beall,  tells  me  that  it  is  understood  in  her  family 
that  Ninian  Beall's  wife  was  a  Miss  Moore. 


COLONEL  GEORGE  BEALL,  1695-1780.       33 

Colonel  George  Beall*^  (see  page  22)  the  youngest 
child  of   Colonel   Ninian   Beall,   was  born   at  Upper 
Marlboro,49  in  Prince    George    County   in    1695    and 
died  at  Georgetown,  D.  C,  March   15th,  1780.     The 
inscription  on  his  tombstone  was  as  follows  : 
"  Here  lieth  Colonel  George  Beall 
who  departed  this  Life  March  15th 
1780  Aged  85  years." 
By  an  act  of  May   15th,   1751,  the  Legislature  of 
Maryland   provided   for   laying  out   a   town    on    the 
Potomac  River,  above  Rock  Creek.     For  this  purpose 
part  of  George  Beall's  land  was  taken,  as  well  as  part 
of  that  belonging  to  a  Mr.  Gordon.     When,  in  spite 
of  their  refusal  to  sell,  the  land  so  taken  was  divided 
into  lots,  Colonel  Beall  and  Mr.  Gordon  were  allowed 
the  privilege  of  first  selecting  two  lots  each  as  com- 
pensation for  their  lands.     After  a  week's  reflection, 
George  Beall  sent  the  following  answer  : 

"If  I  must  part  with  my  property  by  force,  I  had 
better  save  a  litde  than  be  totally  demolished.  Rather 
than  have  none,  I  accept  these  lots, — Nos.  72  and  79 

*  "Among  depositions  taken  in  June  1770  concerning  a  tract  of  land  in 
Prince  George  County,  the  following  appears  : 

"The  deposition  of  Coll.  George  Beall,  aged  about  Seventy-five  years, 
being  first  sworn  on  the  Holy  Evangels,  Deposeth,"  etc.  Liber  A.  A.', 
No.  2,  folio  206,  Land  Records  of  Prince  George  County,  Md. 

^''Beall  family  Bible. 


34  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY    OF   WHITCHURCH. 

said  to  be  Mr.  Henderson's  and  Mr.  Edmonston's. 
But  I  do  hereby  protest,  and  declare  that  my  accept- 
ance of  the  said  lots,  which  is  by  force,  shall  not  debar 
me  from  future  redress  from  the  Commissioners  or 
others,  if  I  can  have  the  rights  of  a  British  subject. 

God  save  King  George  ! 

"GEORGE  BEALL. 

"March  7,  1752, "5° 

He  built,  what  was  for  those  days,  a  fine,  large, 
brick  house  which  still  stands  on  the  present  N  Street, 
near  Thirty-first  Street.^'  He  was  buried  along  side 
of  his  wife  (see  page  22)  in  the  family  burying  ground 
near  their  house.  The  inscription  on  her  tombstone 
was  as  follows : 

"  Here  lieth  the  Body  of  Elizabeth  Beall  the  wife  of 
Colonel  George  Beall  who  departed  this  Life  October 
the  2nd  :   1748  Aged  about  49  years." 

In  recent  years  their  bodies,  with  those  of  their 
children,  were  removed  to  Oak  Hill.  It  is  held  by 
many  of  the  inhabitants  of  Georgetown,  that  George- 
town was  named  after  Colonel  George  Beall.  On 
January  i8th,    1720,  he  received  a  grant  of  thirteen 

''''The  Chronicles  of  Georgetown,  D.  C.,/rom  173 1  to  1878,  by  Richard 
P.  Jackson  of  the  Washington  Bar.  Washington,  D.  C. ;  R.  O.  Polkin- 
horn,  1878,  pages  3-5. 

■^^It  may  be  that  this  house  was  built  by  his  son,  Thomas  Beall. 


COLONEL  GEORGE  BEALL,  1695-I780.       35 

hundred  and  eighty  acres  known  as  "  the  Addition  to 
the  Rock  of  Dumbarton. "^^  His  will  was  probated  at 
Rockville,  Montgomery  County,  Maryland,  and  is  as 
follows : 

"In  the  name  of  God  Amen,  I  George  Beall  of  Mont- 
gomery County  and  State  of  Maryland,  being  weak  of 
Body  but  of  perfect  mind  and  disposing  memory,  and 
bearing  in  mind  the  certainty  of  Death,  and  uncertainty 
of  life,  do  ordain  this  to  be  my  last  Will  &  Testament, 
Renouncing  &  Disanuling  all  former  Wills,  and  first 
I  Will  my  Soul  to  God  in  whose  mercy  with  the 
merits  of  Jesus  Christ  I  depend  for  Salvation,  Sec- 
ondly, that  my  Body  be  Buried  in  a  decent  and  Christian 
like  manner— And  thirdly,  I  will  that  all  my  Just  debts 
be  paid  out  of  the  Estate  it  hath  pleased  God  to  bless 
me  with,  &  the  Remainder  to  be  Divided  in  manner 
and  form  following,  Vizt, — 

"Item,  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  son  George 
Beall     [The  will  is  effaced  at  this  point.] 

"Item,  I  give  all  my  houses,  and  lots  in  George- 
town to  my  son  Thomas  Beall  and  also  all  that  tract 
or  parcel  of  land  called  Cunjurors  Disappointment 
and  also  part  of  Dumbarton,  to  be  Divided  by  the 
great  branch  that  leads  to  the  Saw  Mill  thence  to  the 

''■'Liber  J.  L.,  No.  A.,  folio 53,  Maryland  Land  Office,  Annapolis. 


36  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY    OF   WHITCHURCH. 

Main  Road,  all  that  part  that  lies  to  the  southward  to 
belong  to  my  G.  son  Thomas  Beall 

"Item,  I  give  unto  my  Daughter  Elizabeth  Evans 
my  Negro  fellow  Jack,  to  serve  four  years  and  then 
to  be  set  free — 

"Signed  Sealed  and  Acknowledged  to  be  my  last 
Will  &  testament  in  presents  of  us  this   15'^  day  of 

March  1780. 

"GEO  BEALL     [seal] 
"  W.  Smith 
Richard  Cheney 
Abra^  Boyd." 

Colonel  and  Mrs.  Beall  had  twelve  children  as 
follows  :52 

Esther,  d.  y. 

Thomas,  d.  aged  seventeen  years. 

Mary,  d.  aged  sixteen  years. 

George,  b.  in  1729. 

Levin,  d.  in  Martinique. 

Patrick. 

Thomas  (2^'^)  d.  y. 

Rebeckah. 

Lucy  Magruder. 

Elizabeth  Evans. 

Mary  (2"<i) 

Thomas  (3'''^)  born  in  1748  (see  page  57). 


s^From  the  family  Bible  that  belonged  to  George  C.  Washington 
communicated  by  Mrs.  Henry  Irvine  Keyser,  of  Baltimore. 


COLONEL  GEORGE  BEALL,  1729-1807.       2)7 

George,  the  fourth  child  and  second  son  of  Colonel 
George  Beall^^  and  Elizabeth  Brooke  his  wife,  was 
also  in  the  army  as  the  inscription  on  his  tombstone 
shows : 

"  Sacred  to  the  Memory  of  Colonel  George  Beall. 
He  was  born  in  George  Town  on  the  26th  day  of 
February   1729.     He  died  October  15th   1807  in  the 

'^^A  grandson  of  the  second  Colonel  George  Beall,  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Bloomer  Balch,  speaks  thus  in  his  Reniitiiscences  of  Georgetown  of  some 
of  the  Beall  family  : 

"  George  Beall,  the  son  of  Ninian  [Beall]  was  the  immediate  progenitor 
of  George  and  Thomas  Beall,  who  were  respectable  inhabitants  of 
Georgetown.  Ninian  [Beall]  being  a  friend  of  the  Hanoverian  succes- 
sion, probably  gave  name  to  his  son  from  this  fact.  George,  of  George, 
died  in  1807,  and  was  buried  in  the  family  cemetery,  which  is  nearly  oppo- 
site to  the  house  now  occupied  by  Dr.  Riley. 

******** 

' '  He  married  a  Magruder.  The  clan  of  the  McGregors  had  been  rather 
turbulent  in  the  highlands  of  Scotland,  but  the  Magruders  behaved  very 
well  after  their  removal  to  Maryland,  about  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth 

century. 

******** 

"It  is  unnecessary  to  say  anything  about  the  descendants  of  Colonel 
George  Beall  [1729-1807]  except  in  connection  with  our  town.  His  son, 
Thomas  Brooke  [Beall]  was  at  one  time  President  of  the  Farmers  and 
Mechanics'  Bank,  and  died  in  1820.  In  1781,  his  eldest  daughter  [Eliza- 
beth Beall]  was  married  to  the  Rev.  Dr.  Balch,  once  pastor  of  the  Presby- 
terian church  on  Bridge  Street,  who  is  introduced  into  these  reminiscences 
by  special  request  from  many  of  our  citizens.  Thomas  Beall,  brother  of 
George  [the  second]  made  one  of  the  additions  to  the  corporate  limits  of 
this  town.  Seventy-five  years  ago  he  built  a  house  on  the  heights  called 
Dumbarton,  and  died  in  the  fall  of  1819." 

Reminiscences  of  Georgetown,  D.  C.  Second  Lecture  delivered 
March  9th,  1859,  by  Rev.  T.  B.  Balch.  Washington ;  Henry  Polkinhorn, 
1859,  page  7. 


38  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY   OF    WHITCHURCH. 

79th  Year  of  his  Age.     He  lived  respected  and  died 
lamented."55 

His  will,  which  is  on  record  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
is  as  follows : 

"In  the  name  of  God  Amen  I  George  Beall  of 
Washington  County  in  the  State  of  Columbia,  be- 
ing in  perfect  health  and  of  a  sound  and  disposing 
mind  and  memory,  do  make  and  ordain  this  my 
last  will  and  testament,  first  revoking  all  other  wills. 
It  is  my  will  and  desire  that  all  my  just  debts  be 
paid.  Item,  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  beloved 
wife  Elizabeth  Beall  all  the  real  and  personal  prop- 
erty that  I  have  received  by  her  with  their  increase. 
Likewise,  I  give  her  negro  Bill  and  a  mullattow  girl 
named  Sela  and  my  cochehee  with  two  horses  that 
is  fitting  for  a  carrage  and  one  hundred  dollars  to 
buy  a  morning  (moung)  ring,  but  she  is  to  have  no 
rite  of  dowry  to  any  part  of  my  estate,  if  she  should 
want  to  retake  any  part  or  parsell  of  my  estate  or 
my   will  then  all  what  I  have  received  by  her  to  be 

^  5  In  the  Archives  of  Marylajid:  Journal  and  Correspondence  of  the  Mary- 
land Comicil  of  Safety,  July  yth-December  31st,  1776  (Baltimore,  1893),  at 
page  293,  it  is  recorded  that  "  Captn  George  Beall  "  was  appointed  Sep- 
tember 2ist,  1776,  inspector  of  "  George  Town  Warehouse,  in  the  Lower 
district  of  Frederick  County."  And  in  \he  Journal  and  Correspondence 
of  the  Council  of  Safety,  January  ist-March  20th,  1777,  and  the  Journal 
and  Correspondence  of  the  State  Council,  March  20th,  1777-March  28th, 
1778  {Archives  of  Maryland,  Baltimore,  1897),  a  Major  George  Beall  is 
twice  mentioned,  pages  296  and  373. 


COLONEL  GEORGE  BEALL,  I729-1807.       39 

brought  into  my  apprasement  both  real  and  per- 
sonal. After  my  wife's  decease  Bill  and  Sela  to  be 
devided  between  my  children  and  Sela's  increase  if 
any.  Item,  I  give  and  devise  unto  my  eldest  son 
George  Beall  one  hundred  dollars.  I  also  give  and 
be^queave  unto  the  children  of  the  said  George  Beall 
the  neg-roe  named  in  a  bill  of  sale  from  him  to  me 
recorded  in  Montgomery  County  Court  with  all  that 
increase  but  not  till  after  the  death  of  the  said 
George  Beall  and  his  wife.  I  likewise  give  and  be- 
queath to  George  Beall  two  children  Patrick  Beall 
and  Ann  Beall  three  small  negroes  apiece  with  the 
one  that  each  has  got  a  piece.  I  likewise  give  the 
said  George  Beall  an  equal  part  of  my  household  fur- 
niture and  an  equal  part  of  all  my  stock.  Item,  I 
give  and  bequeath  to  my  son  Levin  Beall  the  land  he 
now  lives  on  during  his  life  and  his  present  wife's 
life  ;  then  after  their  decease  to  be  equally  divided  be- 
twixt his  two  children,  John  and  Anna  Beall  to  them 
and  their  heirs  for  ever.  I  likewise  give  and  be- 
queath to  John  Beall  and  Anna  Beall  all  the  negroes 
that  Levin  C.  Beall  has  in  his  possition  to  be  equally 
divided  between  John  and  Anna  Beall  after  their 
father  and  mother's  decease.  I  likewise  give  the  said 
John  and  Anna  Beall  each  of  them  three  small  ne- 
groes apiece  such  as  my  executors  shall  think  proper. 


40  THE   BROOKE    FAMILY   OF   WHITCHURCH. 

I  likewise  give  Levin  C.  Beall  one  hundred  dollars 
and  an  equal  part  of  my  household  furniture  with  an 
equal  part  of  the  stock.  Item,  I  give  and  bequeave  to 
my  grandson  Thomas  Beall  of  Eras.  Beall  three  ne- 
groes such  as  my  executors  shall  think  proper  and 
four  hundred  dollars,  to  be  taken  out  of  my  houses 
and  lotts.  Item,  I  make  and  do  ordain  my  two  sons 
Hezk.  Beall  and  Capt.  Thos.  B.  Beall  my  whole  ex- 
ecutors and  administrators  joindy  and  severally  on  all 
my  estate.  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  two  sons 
Hezh.  Beall  and  Capt.  Thos.  B.  Beall  the  grave  yard 
lott  to  begin  at  the  end  of  my  two  lotts  that  lays  in 
front  of  the  street  and  to  run  to  a  lott  known  by  the 
name  of  Mrs.  White's  and  then  with  said  lott  north 
or  thereabouts  to  the  end  supposed  to  be  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty  feet,  then  to  run  about  west,  so  as  to 
make  it  square  in  the  garding,  and  then  to  run  about 
south  with  a  straight  line  to  the  beginning  of  the  first 
line,  to  them  and  their  heirs,  executors,  administrators 
or  assigns  for  ever.  Item,  I  give  and  bequeave  to  my 
son  Hezekiah  Beall  the  remainder  part  of  the  thou- 
sand pounds  that  I  was  to  give  him,  likewise  the  six 
negroes  and  their  increase  that  I  have  given  him,  like- 
wise an  equal  share  of  my  stock  and  household 
goods.  Item,  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  son  Capt. 
Thos.  Brooke  Beall  three  negroes  that  is  all  to  make 


COLONEL  GEORGE  BEALL,  1729-1807.       4^ 

up  his  six  negroes  with  the  three  that  he  has  gott, 
likewise  his  balance  due  him  of  his  thousand  pounds 
and  likewise  I  give  him  all  the  land  that  I  hold  on 
Senaca  Creek  that  I  bought  of  him,  he  first  paying  to 
the  estate  six  hundred  dollars  to  pay  off  the  legacies — 
Likewise  an  equal  part  of  stock  and  household  fur- 
niture.    Item    I    give   and   bequeath    to    the    Revd. 
Stephen  B.  Balch  Nell  and  Lydia,  but  their  increase 
to  be  equally  divided  betwixt  his  children.     Whereas 
Lydia  has  three  or  four  children  now  I  give  the  oldest 
child  to  Lewis  P.  W.  Balch,  the  next  oldest  to  Geo. 
Balch,  and  the  next  oldest  to   Anna  Balch  and  the 
next  oldest  to   Harriet   Balch  and  so  continue  until 
they  all  get  equall  alike  in  case  the  two  negro  women 
should  breed ;  likewise  I  give  Lewis  P.  W.  Balch  one 
hundred  and  fifty  dollars  out  of  my  estate.     I  give 
and  bequeath  to  Capt.  John  Rose  the  six  negroes  that 
he  had  of  me  and  their  increase,  and  to  have  his 
thousand  pounds  made  up  to  him  as  there  is  a  great 
proportion  already  paid ;  likewise  I  give  him  an  equall 
part  of  the  stock  and  household  furniture.     Item  I 
give  all  the  rest  of  my  estate,  after  my  just  debts  is 
paid  and  all  these  legacies  that  I  have  made  is  taken 
out  of  my  houses  and  lotts  in  George  Town  or  Thos. 
Beall   of  Geo.    addition   to   Georgetown    except   the 
Grave  yard  lott  which  I  have  given  to  my  two  sons 


42  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY    OF   WHITCHURCH. 

Hezk.  Beall  and  Capt.  Thos.  B.  Beall,  it  is  my  desire 
that  the  above  property  be  equally  divided  betwixt 
the  following  children  to  wit:  Hezk.  Beall,  Capt. 
Thos.  B.  Beall,  Elizabeth  Balch  and  Anna  Rose. 
Item,  it  is  my  desire  that  my  executors  and  adminis- 
trators give  to  George  Beall,  my  eldest  son,  one 
negro  at  their  discression  for  during  his  life  and  his 
wife's  life  and  afterwards  to  be  divided  between  his 
two  children  Patrick  Beall  and  his  daughter  Ann 
Beall.  It  is  also  my  desire  that  my  executors  and  ad- 
ministrators give  to  my  son  Levin  C.  Beall  one  grone 
negro  at  their  discression  of  my  executors  during  his 
and  his  wife's  life,  and  afterwards  to  be  divided  be- 
tween his  two  children  John  Beall  and  Anna  Beall. 
Of  my  executors,  being  subscribed  and  set  down  be- 
fore the  signing  of  this  instrument  of  writing. 

In  testimony  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand 
and  affixed  my  seal  this  eleventh  day  of  June  one 
thousand  eight  hundred  and  two. 

"GEORGE  BEALL. 

"Proved  October  20th,  iSo;."^^ 

He  married  Elizabeth  Magruder  (originally  Mc- 
Gregor).   Among  their  children  were  Thomas  Brooke 

^^  Wills  No  /,  J.  H.,  folio  J 37.     Register  of  Wills,  Washington,  D.  C. 


ELIZABETH    BEALL,     1762-1827.  43 

Bealls^who  died  in  1820,  Elizabeth  Beall,  and  Anna 
Beall  who  married  in  1792  at  Georgetown,  "Cap- 
tain "  John  Rose.  Elizabeth  Beall  was  born  in 
Georgetown  in  1762  and  died  there  June  27th,  1827. 
On  July  loth,  1781,  she  was  married  by  the  Rev. 
Isaac  Stockton  Keith  to  the  Rev.  Stephen  Bloomer 
Balch,  then  Rector  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Georgetown.  The  ladies  of  Georgetown  being  patri- 
otic, positively  refused  to  drink  tea  during  the  prog- 
ress of  the  Revolution,  and  so  the  cups  used  at  the 
wedding  were  not  much  larger  than  thimbles.^^  Dr. 
Balch  was  the  son  of  James  Balch  and  was  born 
April  5th,  1747,  on  Deer  Creek,  Harford  County, 
Maryland.  His  family  came  originally  from  south- 
western England — from  Somerset  and  Devon.  After 
graduating  at  Princeton  College  in   1774,  he  went  to 

5  "The  will  of  Thomas  Brooke  Beall  of  Washington,  D.  C,  was  signed 
November  23d,  1808.  The  last  codicil  was  dated  "  George  Town  9th  July 
1816."     The  will  was  proved  at  Washington,  D.  C,  October  14th,  1820. 

"  Item  12.  I  leave  Hezk.  Beall  or  his  children  one  third  of  my  estate, 
Anna  Rose  one  third  or  her  children  and  one  third  to  Thomas  [Bloomer] 
Balch,  Anna  Balch,  Eliza  Balch  and  Jane  Whann  Balch,  after  all  the  leg- 
acies are  paid  the  balance  is  to  go  as  I  have  stated  in  this  Item.  The  one 
third  that  I  have  left  to  Mrs.  Balch's  children  is  to  be  equally  divided 
among  the  above  named  children.  And  lastly,  I  do  hereby  constitute 
and  appoint  Hezk.  Beall,  Capt.  John  Rose  and  Stephen  B.  Balch  to  be 
my  executors  of  this  my  last  will  &  testament."  Wills  No. 3,  H.  C.  H., 
folio  94,  Register  of  Wills,  Washington,  D.  C. 

^"^Reminiscences  of  Georgetoimi,  D.  C.  A  lecture  delivered  in  George- 
town D.  C,  January  20th,  1859,  by  Rev.  T.  B.  Balch.  Washington : 
Henry  Polkinhorn,  1859,  page  15. 


44  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY   OF   WHITCHURCH. 

Lower  Marlboro,  Calvert  County,  Maryland,  where 
he  took  charge  of  a  classical  academy.  On  October 
ist,  1775,  he  was  commissioned  captain  in  the  Cal- 
vert County  militia :  he  held  this  command  for  three 
years  and  was  in  actual  service  against  the  enemy 
from  December  ist,  1775,  to  December  ist,  1777.^^ 
When  the  British  appeared  on  the  shores  of  the 
Patuxent  River  and  Chesapeake  Bay,  he  marched 
out  with  his  company  to  assist  in  repulsing  them. 
He  was  in  a  number  of  actions,  and  though  fre- 
quently offered  promotion,  declined  it,  inasmuch  as  he 
thought  he  could  be  of  more  service  on  the  Chesa- 
peake border,  with  all  of  which  he  was  familiar  from 
childhood,  and  at  the  same  time  could  continue  his 
preparation  for  the  ministry.  In  1778  when  the  feel- 
ing was  universal  that,  owing  to  the  defeat  of  Bur- 
goyne  (1777)  and  the  French  alliance,  our  independ- 
ence was  secured,  and  the  acknowledgment  of  it  was 
merely  a  question  of  time,  he  resigned  from  the 
service  in  order  to  give  himself  up  more  assiduously 
to  his  clerical  duties. 

In  1780  he  was  called  by  the  Presbyterians  of 
Georgetown  on  the  Potomac  to  establish  a  church 
among   them.      Accepting,   he  arrived   there    March 


^^ Records  of  the  Revohdionary  War,  by  W.  T.  R.  Saffell,  New  York, 
1858,  page  537. 


STEPHEN    BLOOMER    BALCH,     I747-1833.  45 

1 6th,  1780,  and  remained  in  charge  of  the  church  he 
founded,  until  his  death  fifty-three  years  afterwards. 

Among  his  friends  were  Thomas  Jefferson  and  Al- 
bert Gallatin.  A  few  weeks  after  the  death  of  Gen- 
eral Washington,  Dr.  Balch  gave  notice  that  he  would 
speak  of  the  life  and  services  of  the  departed  states- 
man. He  preached  in  the  open  air  to  more  than  a 
thousand  people,  from  the  last  verse  of  the  tenth 
chapter  of  the  book  of  Esther,  "  For  Mordecai  the 
Jew,  was  next  unto  King  Ahasuerus,  and  great  among 
the  Jews,  and  accepted  of  the  multitude  of  his  breth- 
ren, seeking  the  wealth  of  his  people,  and  speaking 
peace  to  all  his  ^eed."  He  was  a  firm  believer  in  the 
rights  of  the  individual  and  was  in  favor  of  gradually 
liberating  the  slaves  and  sending  them  to  Liberia.  He 
had  a  robust,  vigorous  constitution  and  a  bold  honest 
countenance.  He  was  a  lover  of  books,  and  among 
the  classics  he  preferred  Horace  to  Virgil. 

"  On  Sunday  morning,  September  22,  1833,  at  nine 
o'clock  A.  M.,  as  he  was  preparing  to  go  to  church  to 
perform  his  official  duties,"  Mr.  Jackson  of  Georgetown 
says,^  "he  was  stricken  with  apoplexy  and  sank  to  rest 
like  the  sun  without  a  cloud  to  hide  his  lustre.  As  the 
news  of  his  death  spread  through  the  town  the  citizens, 


^  ° Article  on  Dr.  Balch  in  the  Washington  Evening  Star  of  April  ist, 
1893,  by  W.  S.  Jackson,  Esq.,  of  Georgetown,  D.  C. 


46  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY    OF    WHITCHURCH. 

irrespective  of  religious  creed,  expressed  themselves 
with  one  accord:  'Well  done,  good  and  faithful  serv- 
ant, enter  thou  into  the  joy  of  thy  Lord.'  A  successful 
plaster  cast  of  his  face  was  taken  just  after  his  death. 
On  Monday  the  Board  of  Aldermen  and  Common 
Council  of  Georgetown  passed  the  following  resolution : 

"  'That  we  have  learned  with  deep  regret  the  death 
of  our  aged  and  venerable  fellow  citizen,  Doctor 
Stephen  Bloomer  Balch,  who  for  more  than  fifty-three 
years,  has  been  a  useful  and  honored  minister  of  re- 
ligion in  the  town,  illustrating  the  holy  profession  he 
made  through  his  long  career  by  a  life  of  uniform 
piety  towards  God,  and  benevolence,  liberality  and 
kindness  to  his  fellow  men,  descending  to  his  tomb 
full  of  years,  and  rich  in  the  reverence,  esteem  and 
love  of  the  whole  community. 

' '  '  Resolved,  that  as  a  testimony  of  respect  to  his 
memory,  the  members  and  officers  of  this  corporation 
will  attend  his  funeral  to-morrow  (Tuesday)  at  ten 
o'clock  A.  M. 

" '  Resolved,  that  the  clerk  of  the  corporation  be  re- 
quested to  transmit  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  to  the 
family  of  the  deceased.' 

"  The  town  was  draped  in  mourning,  business  places 
were  closed,  and  all  the  bells  tolled  as  the  remains  of 
this  faithful  apostle  of  God  were  carried  from  his  resi- 


STEPHEN    BLOOMER    BALCH,     1747-1833.  47 

dence,  No.  3302  N  Street,  to  the  church  where  he  had 
so  often  performed  the  last  sad  rites  to  hundreds  and 
thousands.  Ministers  of  all  denominations,  including 
eight  priests,  representing  the  Catholic  Church,  who 
had  loved  and  venerated  him  in  life,  joined  in  the  fun- 
eral cortege.  When  the  hearse  reached  the  church 
the  procession  was  still  forming  at  the  residence. 

"The  funeral  sermon,  an  eloquent  discourse  on  the 
life  and  services  of  the  deceased,  was  preached  by  the 
Rev.  Elijah  Harrison,  of  Alexandria,  Virginia,  from 
Acts  viii.  2  :  '  And  devout  men  carried  Stephen  to  his 
burial,  and  made  great  lamentation  over  him.'  After 
the  funeral  sermon  his  remains  were  incased  in  the 
front  wall  of  the  church. 

"  His  life  was  checkered  with  many  severe  trials. 
Dug  out  of  one  home,  flooded  out  of  another  and 
burnt  out  of  a  third,  yet  his  fortitude  and  piety,  resig- 
nation and  cheerfulness  forsook  him  not.  Keeping 
his  eye  steadfastly  fixed  on  his  sacred  calling,  he  was 
to  his  expiring  day  faithful  to  his  Master. 

"In  October,  1835,  ^  handsome  monument  was 
erected  by  his  family  to  his  memory  in  front  of  the 
church  he  founded  and  so  long  presided  over.  It  was 
of  white  marble,  representing  a  pyramidal  tablet  rest- 
ing upon  a  solid  Ionic  base  against  the  wall  between 


48  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY   OF   WHITCHURCH. 

the  doors  of  the  main  entrance,  with  no  other  orna- 
ment than  a  wreath  beautifully  sculptured  at  the  top. 
It  bore  the  following  inscription : 

'  Sacred 

To  the  memory  of 

Stephen  Balch,  D.  D. 

Who  died  September  22,  1833, 

In  the  eighty-seventh  year  of  his  age. 

He  was  the  founder  of  this  church, 

And  for  more  than  half  a  century 

Its  revered  pastor. 

He  planted  the  gospel  in  this  town, 

And  his  example  was  for  many  years 

A  light  to  its  inhabitants. 

He  being  dead,  yet  speaketh. 


'Reliquiae  mortales 

Stephani  Bloomer  Balch,  D.  D., 

Sub  hoc  marmore 

In  human  tun 

His  children  have  erected  this  tablet 

To  record 

The  virtue  of  the  dead  and  the 

Gratitude  of  the  living.' 

"In  the  spring  of  1873,  when  the  church  was  de- 
molished, his  remains  were  reintered  in  the  Presbyter- 
ian cemetery  on  33rd  Street  near  the  chapel.  In  the 
spring  of  1874  the  philanthropic  William  W.  Corcoran 


STEPHEN    BLOOMER   BALCH,     I747-1833.  49 

wrote  to  his  children  requesting  the  privilege  of  re- 
moving the  remains  to  Oak  Hill  cemetery.  Writing 
to  his  son,  the  Rev.  Thomas  B.  Balch,  he  said:  'I 
knew  your  father  from  boyhood,  and  the  sentiments 
of  profound  esteem  with  which  at  an  early  age  I 
regarded  him  were  undiminished  at  the  close  of  his 
protracted  and  exemplary  life.'  And  on  June  i8, 
1874,  the  remains  of  this  apostle  of  God  were  rein- 
tered  near  the  Swiss  Chapel  in  Oak  Hill  cemetery. 
A  mural  tablet  ordered  by  W.  W.  Corcoran  was 
mounted  on  the  wall  of  the  Swiss  Chapel  bearing  the 
following  inscription  in  letters  of  gold  : 

'  In  honor  of 

Stephen  Bloomer  Balch,  D.  D., 

Born 

On  "  Deer  Creek",  near  Bait,  Md., 

April,  A.  D.  1747, 

Came  to  Georgetown,  D.  C, 

March  i6,  A.  D.  1780. 

Died  September  22,  A.  D.  1833, 

He  planted  the  Gospel  in 

Georgetown.     Founded 

"  The  Bridge  Street  Presbyterian 

Church" 

And  was  for  more  than  fifty  years 

Its  Pastor. 

In  life  he  Practiced  what  he  Preached. 

No  Eulogy  can  add  to  such 

A  record.'  " 


50  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY    OF   WHITCHURCH. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Balch  had  eleven  children  as  follows  : 

1.  Ann  Amia,  d.  y. 

2.  Harriet. 

3.  Alfred. 

4.  Lewis  P.  W. 

5.  George  Beall. 

6.  Hezekiah  James,  d.  unmarried. 

7.  Thomas  Bloomer. 

8.  Franklin,  d.  y. 

9.  Ann  Eleanora. 

10.  Elizabeth  Maria. 

1 1 .  Jane  Whann. 

2.  Harriet  Balch  was  born  at  Georgetown,  D.  C, 
June  17th,  1783.  She  married  first  James  R.  Wilson, 
U.  S  N.,  and  after  his  death  Major- General  Alexander 
Macomb,  commander-in-chief  of  the  United  States 
Army,  who  fought  the  batde  of  Plattsburg  in  1814.^' 
General  and  Mrs.  Macomb  lived  in  Washington  in  a 
large  house  which  still  stood  in  1897  on  Farragut 
Square  at  the  north  west  corner  of  Seventeenth  and  I 
Streets.     Mrs.  Macomb  died  May  22d,  1869. 

3.  Alfred  Balch  was  born  at  Georgetown,  D.  C.,  Sep- 
tember 1 7th,  1 785.  He  graduated  at  Princeton  College 
in  the  class  of  1805,  and  studied  for  the  Bar.     In  181 3 

"An  oil  picture  of  General  Macomb  that  he  had  painted  for  his  wife, 
taken  after  the  battle  of  Plattsburg  and  now  in  the  writer's  possession, 
shows  him  standing  in  full  uniform  and  looking  into  the  distance  :  his 
orderly  holds  his  horse  close  by,  and  in  the  background  the  tents  of  the 
American  Army  are  seen. 


BALCH.  51 

he  went  to  Nashville,  Tennessee,  upon  legal  business. 
There  he  remained,  and  soon  gained  the  friendship  of 
Andrew  Jackson,  which  lasted  until  the  death  of  the 
hero  of  New  Orleans.  Jackson,  when  President, 
named  him  Commissioner  of  Indian  treaties,  and  in 
1840  Martin  Van  Buren  appointed  him  United  States 
District  Judge  for  the  middle  district  of  Florida.^^  He 
died  at  his  country  place,  Rose  Mont,  near  Nashville, 
on  June  21st,  1853.  He  married  twice:  first  Mary 
Lewis,  and  after  her  death  Anna  Newman.  He  had 
one  child,  Alfred  Newman,  who  died  in  1840. 

4.  Lewis  Penn  Witherspoon  Balch  was  born  at 
Georgetown,  D.  C,  on  December  31st,  1787.  He 
graduated  at  Princeton  College  in  1806,  where  he  was 
a  member  of  Whig  Hall,  and  then  studied  law  with  his 
kinsman  (afterwards  Chief  Justice)  Roger  Brooke 
Taney.  His  father  taught  him  that  slavery  ought  to 
disappear,  and,  accordingly,  in  1834,  he  liberated  all 
his  slaves  and  sent  twenty-two  of  them  to  Liberia, 
paying  for  their  passage.  In  March,  1865,  he  was 
chosen  a   State   Circuit  Judge  for  the  north  eastern 

«2"  I  nominate  to  the  Senate  Alfred  Balch,  of  Tennessee,  to  be  judge 
of  the  United  States  for  the  middle  district  of  Florida,  for  the  term  of 
four  years,  in  place  of  Thomas  Randall,  whose  term  of  service  has 
expired. 

"M.  VAN  BUREN. 
"Washington,  March  loth,  1840." 

Executive  Proceedings  of  the  Senate,  Vol.  IV.,  page  265. 


52  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY   OF   WHITCHURCH. 

counties  of  West  Virginia,  and  served  in  those 
troublesome  times  with  credit  until  the  following 
March.  He  contributed  to  the  Southern  Literary 
Messenger  a  number  of  biographical  sketches — on 
Roger  Brooke  Taney,  Daniel  Sheffy,  Samuel  Cooper, 
Robert  White,  Lawrence  Everheard  and  others.  He 
died  August  29th,  1868.  On  March  14th,  1811,  he 
married  Elizabeth  Willis  Wever,  daughter  of  John 
Adam  Wever  (originally  von  Weber)  of  Virginia. 
She  was  born  May  loth,  1790,  and  died  July  7th,  1874. 

Besides  several  children  who  died  young,  Judge 
and  Mrs.  Balch  had  six  children  who  grew  up  ;  they 
were  all  born  at  Leesburg,  Loudon  County,  Virginia. 

i.  Lewis  P.  W.  Balch,  born  February  23rd,  1814, 
studied  at  West  Point  and  Princeton  College  and  was 
admitted  to  the  ministry  of  the  Episcopal  Church ;  he 
married  first  Anna  Jay,  daughter  of  William  Jay  of 
New  York,  and  granddaughter  of  Chief  Justice  Jay  ; 
he  married  secondly  Emily  Wiggin. 

ii.  Catherine  Balch,  born  November  28th,  181 5. 

iii.  Virginia  Balch,  born  March  i8th,  1818. 

iv.  Thomas  Balch,  born  July  23d,  1821.  He 
studied  two  years  at  Columbia  College,  and  then  read 
law  with  Stephen  Cambreling  and  was  admitted  to  the 
Bar.  In  an  open  letter,  to  which  Horace  Greeley  gave 
a  place  in  the  New  York  Tribune,  on  May  13th,  1865, 


BALCH.  53 

he  was  the  first  to  propose  that  the  Alabama  and 
other  differences  then  pending  between  the  United 
States  and  England  should  be  decided  by  a  Court  of 
Arbitration ;  from  that  seed  the  Geneva  Tribunal 
(1872)  grew.  From  1859  to  1873  he  lived  in  Europe, 
residing  chiefly  at  Paris.  While  there  he  wrote 
and  published  in  1872  an  account  of  the  part  that  the 
French  took  in  the  War  of  Independence  :  it  was  en- 
titled Les  Francais  en  Amerique  pendant  la  Guerre  de 
V Independance  des  Etats-Unis,  ly/y-iySj.  In  July, 
1876,  as  one  of  the  Congress  of  Authors,  he  contributed 
a  biographical  sketch  of  Dr.  William  Shippen,  "  the 
Elder,"  a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress.  He 
married  at  Woodfield,  her  father's  country  place  in 
Philadelphia  County,  Emily  Swift,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Swift  and  his  wife,  Eliza  Moore  Willing,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Samuel  Swift  and  his  wife,  Mary, 
daughter  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Joseph  Shippen.^^ 

Issue  surname  Balch : 

Elise  Willing. 

Edwin  Swift,  A.  B.,  Harvard  University,  1878,  and  member 
of  the  Philadelphia  Bar. 

Joseph  Swift,  born  July  5th,  i860,  at  Paris,  France,  and 
died  there  July  3d,  1864. 

Thomas  Willing,  A.  B.,  Harvard  University,  1890,  and  mem- 
ber of  the  Philadelphia  Bar. 

« ^Letters  and  Papers  relating  chiefly  to  the  Provincial  History  of  Penn- 
sylvania, with  some  notices  of  the  writers,  by  Thomas  Balch,  Philadel- 
phia, 1S55,  page  xciii. 


54  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY    OF   WHITCHURCH. 

V.  Alexandrine  Macomb,  born  September  6th,  1828. 

vi.  Stephen  Fitzhugh,  born  March  14th,  1831. 

5.  George  Beall  Balchwas  born  August  i6th.  1789, 
at  Georgetown,  D.  C.  He  was  a  planter  at  Moulton, 
Alabama,  and  died  June  2d,  1831.  He  married  his 
cousin,  Martha  Rogers  Balch. 

With  others  who  died  young,  they  had 

George   Beall    Balch.     He  was  born  January  3d, 

1 82 1,  at  Shelby ville,  Tennessee.    He  entered  the  Naval 

Academy.     He  was  in  the  Mexican  war  and  took  part 

in  the  first  attack  on  Alvarado,  November  ist,  1846, 

and    he    was   a    midshipman   with   Perry    in    Japan. 

During  the   Civil  War  he  commanded  the  U.  S.  S. 

Pawnee  of  the  Atlantic  coast  blockading   squadron. 

In  1878  he  became  Rear  Admiral  and  was  in  command 

at  the  Naval  Academy  at  Annapolis  from  1879  to  1881 

and  then  commanded  the  Pacific  squadron  until  he  was 

retired  in   1883,  having  reached  the  limit  of  age  for 

active  service.     He  married  first  Julia  Grace  Vinsen. 

Issue  surname  Balch : 
George  Vinsen. 
Stephen  Bloomer. 
Julia  Grace. 
Margaret  Cassandier. 
Harriet  Ann. 

Admiral  Balch  married  second,  Mary  Ellen  Booth, 
daughter  of  James  Booth,  Chief  Justice  of  Delaware. 


BALCH.  55 

Issue  surname  Balch : 
Mary  Ellen. 
Alfred. 
Anna. 

Francis  DuPont. 
Amy  Rogers. 

6.  Hezekiah  James  Balch,  was  born  April  i6th, 
1 79 1,  at  Georgetown,  D.  C,  and  died  unmarried 
March  17  th,  1821.^4 

7.  Thomas  Bloomer  Balch  was  born  February  28th, 
1 793,  at  Georgetown,  D.  C.  He  graduated  at  Princeton 
in  18 1 3  and  was  a  Presbyterian  clergyman  of  much 
note.  He  received  an  honorary  Doctor's  degree  from 
his  ahna  mater.  For  several  years  he  was  assistant  to 
his  father  in  the  church  at  Georgetown,  and  then  he 
accepted  a  call  to  the  church  at  Snow  Hill,  Maryland. 
He  frequently  wrote  for  the  Southern  Literary  Mes- 
senger, and  published  "Christianity  and  Literature," 
1826,   "The  Ringwood  Discourses,"    1850,  etc.     He 

«*He  was  named  after  his  uncle,  the  Rev.  Hezekiah  James  Balch,  who 
was  born  on  Deer  Creek,  Harford  County,  Maryland,  in  1746,  graduated 
at  Princeton  in  1766,  was  a  minister  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  went  in 
1769  to  Macklenburg  County,  North  Carolina,  where  in  1775  he  took  a 
leading  part  in  the  Mecklenburg  Declaration  of  Independence,  and  died 
unmarried  early  in  1776.  Many  chroniclers  have  confused  the  Rev.  H.  J. 
Balch  with  his  brother  the  Rev.  James  Balch,  who  was  born  on  Deer 
Creek,  December  25th,  1750,  and  settled  in  the  West ;  and  also  with  their 
cousin  the  Rev.  Hezekiah  Balch,  who  was  born  in  Harford  County, 
Maryland,  in  1741,  graduated  at  Princeton  in  1766,  and  settled  in  Tennes- 
see, where  he  founded  and  became  the  first  President  of  Greenville 
College. 


56  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY   OF    WHITCHURCH. 

was  very  fond  of  geography,  took  a  great  interest  in 
Liberia,  and  was  an  active  member  of  the  Colonization 
Society.  He  died  February  14th,  1878,  at  "Macomb 
Manse,"  near  Greenwich, Virginia.  He  married  Susan 
Carter,  daughter  of  Charles  Beale  Carter  of  "  Shirley" 
on  the  James  River,  who  was  a  half  uncle  of  General 
Robert  E.  Lee,  C.  S.  A. ;  Charles  Beale  Carter  mar- 
ried his  first  cousin,  Anne  Beale  Carter,  also  a  cousin  of 
General  Lee.    Dr.  and  Mrs.  Balch  had  eleven  children. 

Issue  surname  Balch: 

1.  Annie  Carter. 

2.  Elizabeth  Macomb. 

3.  Robert  Monroe,  Lieutenant-Colonel  in  the  C.  S.  A.; 
he  was  in  the  Western  Army,  and  at  the  fight  at  Fort  Don- 
elson  had  his  horse  shot  under  him,  but  mounted  another. ^5 

4.  Charles  Carter,  Captain  in  the  C.  S.  A.  ;  he  was  at  the 
battle  of  Fort  Donelson. 

5.  Harriet,  d,  y. 

6.  Chalmas  Page. 

7.  Leimaeus. 

8.  William  Cowper"!  ^    • 
^      *-  twms 


9.   Felyx  Neff 

10.  Mary  Landon. 

1 1 .  Julia  Ringwood 


•}■ 


9.  Anna  Eleanora  Balch  was  born  at  Georgetown, 
D.  C,  August  14th,  1799.  She  married  Captain 
James  C.  Wilson. 

•^^"Balch's  (R.  M. )  Cavalry.  See  Tennessee  Troops,  Confederate, 
i8th  Battalion."  Miscellaneous  Documetits  of  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives for  the  2d.  session  of  the  49th  Congress,  vol.  II.,  page  904. 


THOMAS    BEALL,    1748-1819.  57 

10.  Elizabeth  Maria  Balch  was  born  at  George- 
town, D.  C,  April  15th,  1802.  She  married  the  Rev. 
Septinis  Tustin,  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  at  one 
time  Chaplain  of  the  United  States  Senate. 

11.  Jane  Whann  Balch  was  born  at  Georgetown, 
D.  C,  February  14th,  1805,  and  died  March  5th,  1884. 
She  married  William  Williamson. 


Thomas  Beall,  known  always  as  "of  George,"  (see 
page  36)  was  born  September  27th,  1748,  and  died 
October  5th,  18 19.  He  married  September  26th,  1773, 
Nancy  or  Ann,  daughter  of  John  Orme,  and  grand- 
daughter of  the  Rev.  John  Orme  and  Ruth  Edmonson 
of  Wiltshire,  England.  Ann  Orme  was  born  July 
29th,  1752,  and  died  April  9th,  1827.^^ 
They  had 

Eliza  Ridgely  Beall. 

Harriett  Ann  Beall,  who  was  born  February 
15th,  1 791,  and  married  August  5th,  1808, 
John  Peter. 

Eliza  Ridgely  Beall  was  born  November  22nd,  1786, 
and  died  July  ist,  1820.     She  married  September  ist, 

« "^  Communicated  by  Mrs.  Henry  Irvine  Keyser. 


58  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY    OF    WHITCHURCH. 

1807,  Colonel  George  Corbin  Washington,  son  of 
William  Augustine  Washington  and  his  cousin,  Jane 
Washington,  his  wife.  William  Augustine  Washing- 
ton was  the  son  of  General  Washington's  older  half- 
brother,  Augustine  Washington,  who  married  Anne 
Aylett,  while  Jane  Washington  was  the  daughter  of 
General  Washington's  brother,  John  Augustine  Wash- 
ington, who  married  Hannah  Bushrod.  Colonel 
Washington  was  born  August  20th,  1789,  at  Hay- 
wood, Westmoreland  County,  Virginia,  and  died  July 
7th,  1854,  at  Georgetown,  D.  C.  He  represented 
the  Montgomery  County  district  of  Maryland  in  the 
20th,  2 1  St,  and  22d  Congresses. 

Besides  several  children  who  died  young,  Colonel 
and  Mrs.  Washington  had  Lewis  William  Washington. 
He  was  born  November  30th,  181 2,  at  Georgetown, 
D.  C,  and  died  at  Beall-Air,  Jefferson  County,  Vir- 
ginia, October  ist,  1871.  On  May  17th,  1836,  he  mar- 
ried Mary  Ann  Barroll  of  Baltimore,  who  was  born 
October  19th,  181 7,  and  died  November  i6th,    1844. 

Issue : 

ist.  George  Corbin  Washington,  born  March,  1837, 
and  died  September  30th,  1843. 

2d.  James  Barroll  Washington,  born  August  26th, 
1839  and  married  Mrs.  Jane  Bretney  Lanier  Cabell. 
Have  issue. 


WASHINGTON.  59 

3d.  Mary  Ann  Washington  married  November 
17th,  1864,  to  Henry  Irvine  Keyser  of  Baltimore,  son 
of  Samuel  Stouffer  Keyser  and  Elizabeth  Wyman,  his 
wife. 

Isstle  surname  Keyser : 

I.  Henry  Barroll,  married  June  ist,  1892,  to  Caroline  Fischer. 
They  have  two  children,  Ann  Franklin  and  Henry  Irvine. 

II.  Samuel  Irvine,  died  young. 

III.  Lewis  Washington,  died  young. 

IV.  Irvine. 

V.  Mary  Washington,   married  June   ist,    1897,   to  John 
Stewart,  Jr. 

VI.  William  Williams,  died  young. 

4th,  Eliza  Ridgely  Beall  Washington,  married  April 
25th,  1865,  E.  Glenn  Ferine.     Have  issue. 

Lewis  William  Washington  (see  page  58)  married 
second,  November  6th,  i860,  Ella  More  Basset:  they 
had  issue  Betty  Lewis  Washington  and  William  de 
Hertburn  Washington. 


Robert  Brooke,  the  emigrant  married  for  his  second 
wife  on  May  nth,  1635,  Mary  Mainwaring  (see  page 
10).  She  came  to  Maryland  with  her  husband  and 
died  in  the  Province  in  1663.  She  was  the  daughter 
of  Roger  Mainwaring,   Bishop    of  St.    David's^^  and 

« "Arms  of  Mainwaring  of  Cheshire.     Argent,  two  bars,  gules. 


6o  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY   OF    WHITCHURCH. 

his  wife  Cicelia  Proper.     He  received  the  degree  of 
B.  A.  at  All  Soul's  College,  Oxford,  February  1607-8, 
that  of  M.  A.  July  5th,  161 1,  and  those  of  B.  D.  and 
D.  D.  July  2d,    1625.     He  died  at   Caermarthen  July 
ist,    1653.     Walker,  \vv  \\\s>  Sufferings  of  the  Clcrg)\^^ 
says  of  him:    "He  was  born  at  Stretton  in  Shropshire 
{Though  of  a  Cheshire  Family:  which  Lloyd  saithwas 
a    Noble    one),    and   educated    in    the    University   of 
Oxford.     He  was  sometime    Vicar  of  St.   Giles  s   in 
the  Fields  and   Chaplain  to  King   Charles  I.    Before 
whome  preaching  (July  27)   those  Sermons  which  he 
Afterwards   Published   and    Entituled,    Religion   and 
Allegiance;  he  was  called  in  question   for  it  by  the 
Parliament,  Charged  with  Endeavouring  to   Destroy 
the  King  and  Kingdom  by  his  Divinity  and  Censured 
to  be  Imprisoned;  was  Fined  1000^  and  ordered  to 
make  his  Submission,  and  was  Disabled  to  Have  or 
Enjoy  any  Preferment  or  Office.     However,  the  King 
soon    after   Pardoned  him,    and   gave   him  the  Rich 
Living   of  Stanford-Rivers  in   Essex,   in    1633   made 
him  Dean  of  Worcester,  and  Two  Years  after  Nomi- 
nated him  to  this  Bishoprick. 


GsAn  Attempt  towards  recovering  an  account  of  the  Numbers  and 
Sufferings  of  the  Clergy  of  the  Church  of  England  *  *  *  *  in  the 
late  Times  of  the  Grand  Rebellion :  By  John  Walker,  M.  A.  London 
1714,  page  76. 


ROGER  BROOKE,  1637-17OO.  6 I 

'  Foi'-  the  two  last  Years  of  his  Life,  not  a  lueek 
passed  without  a  Message  or  an  Inquiry ;  which  he 
desired  God  not  to  remember  against  his  Adversaries, 
and  adjured  all  his  Friends  to  Forget."  He  died  at 
Caermarthen  on  July   i6th,  1653, 

Of  the  sons  of  Robert  Brooke  and  his  second  wife, 
Mary  Mainwaring,  Roger  Brooke  was  born  at  Bret- 
nock  College,  England,  on  April  8th,  1637.  He  came 
to  Maryland  with  his  father  and  mother,  and  married 
Dorothy  Neale,  daughter  of  Captain  James  Neale 
and  his  wife,  Anna  Gill,  a  maid  of  honor  of  Queen 
Henrietta  Maria;  he  died  April  8th,  1700.  Captain 
James  Neale^  arrived  in  Maryland  about  1642.  In 
1643  he  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Provincial 
Council  and  a  Commissioner  of  Lord  Baltimore's 
Treasury.  In  1660  he  went  to  Amsterdam  in  Holland, 
deputed  by  Lord  Baltimore  to  act  as  his  attorney 
in  regard  to  the  trespasses  of  the  Dutch  upon  that 
portion  of  Maryland  bordering  on  Delaware  Bay.^° 
In    1 66 1    he    was    commissioned   a   Captain.     In    the 


•'^He  belonged,  apparently,  to  the  Neales  of  Warnford  in  Hampshire. 
Their  arms  were  :  Argent,  a  fess  gules  in  chief  two  crescents,  in  base  a 
bugle-horn  of  the  last  straight  vert:  crest;  a  chaplet  of  laurel,  vert. 
William  Berry's  Coimty  Genealogies.     Hants,  page  149. 

■""Againe  in  the  year  1660  did  appeare  att  Amsterdam  in  Holland 
Capt  lames  Neale  being  a  person  deputed  from  the  Lord  Baltimore  pro- 
testing in  the  name  of  Caecilius  Baron  of  Baltemore  in  a  manner  and  forme 


62  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY    OF   WHITCHURCH. 

Calendar  of  Maryland  State  Papers  1 660-61,  appears 
the  petition  of  James  Neale  to  Charles  the  Second 
for  the  office  of  Treasurer:  "He  and  his  father  lost 
Blood  and  Estate  in  his  Majestys  service  and  now 
joyfully  expect  his  speedy  return  and  restitution." 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Provincial  Council  of  Mary- 
land from  1 66 1  to  1662  i^'  he  represented  Charles 
County  in  1666  in  the  House  of  Burgesses;  and  he 
died  in  1684. 

Roger  Brooke  and  Dorothy  Neale,  his  wife,  had, 
with  others,  Roger  Brooke  who  was  born  April  12th, 
1673.  He  married  on  Feb.  23rd,  1702,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Francis  Hutchins,  member  of  the  House 
of  Burgesses,  1682-83,  for  Calvert  County,  and  signer 

as  afore  the  deputyes  had  done  att  delaware  The  Company  was  sitting 
then  in  the  New  West  India  House  in  Amsterdam  where  the  said  lames 
Neale  did  appeare  and  protest  by  Notoriall  Act  of  the  wrong  done  to  his 
Lordship  by  their  Ministers  of  State  in  America  by  usurping  and  unlaw- 
fully possessing  a  Considerable  part  of  his  province  of  Maryland, 
Especially  that  part  which  was  called  by  the  Name  of  Delaware  Bay  de- 
manding not  onely  the  Restauration  of  the  said  Territoryes  soe  uniustly 
detained  with  satisfaction  also  for  the  injury  his  Lops  hath  sustained 
thereby. ' '  Archives  of  Maryland :  Proceedings  of  the  Council  of  Mary- 
land, 1667-1687-8.     Baltimore,  1887,  pages  414,  415. 

'^"At  a  Councell  held  at  St  Marys  the  12th  octobr  1661 

"  Present  The  Gouernor  Secretary  Mr  Robert  Clarke  M^  Baker  Brooke 
Mr  Edward  LLoyd  and  Mr  John  Bateman 

"Was  Sworne  of  the  Councell  Captaine  James  Neale  And  after  satt 
as  a  Counceller." 

Archives  of  Maryland :  Proceedings  of  the  Council  of  Mary la7id,  1636- 
1667.     Baltimore  1885,  page  434. 


BROOKE.  6^ 

of  the  address    of  the    Protestant   subjects   of  King 
Wilham  in  August,  1689^- 

Roger  Brooke  and  Elizabeth  Hutchins,  his  wife,  had 
Roger  Brooke  born  June  loth,  17 14,  who  married 
Sarah  Bowyer,  a  Friend,  of  Philadelphia.^^ 

Their  son,  Bowyer  Brooke,  who  was  born  at  Phila- 
delphia, January  25th,  1737,  married  August  21st, 
1767,  Hannah  Reese,  and  died  March  17th,  181 5. 

They  had  Bowyer  Brooke,  who  was  born  at  Phila- 
delphia, December  13th,  1769,  married  Lydia  Shinn 
of  Burlington  County,  New  Jersey,  and  died  April 
20th,  1838. 

Their  son  John  Bowyer  Brooke  of  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  was  born  August  15th,  1797,  and  died  January 
2 1  St,  1834;  he  married  August  25th,  1831,  Catherine 
Spayd,  grand-daughter  of  Joseph  Hiester,  fifth  Gov- 
ernor of  Pennsylvania. 

They  had  John  Bowyer  Brooke,  of  Reading,  Penn- 
sylvania, who  was  born  April  20th,  1834,  and  died 
March  19th,  1898;  he  graduated  at  the  Jefferson  Med- 
ical College  at  Philadelphia  in  1856,  and  married  Oc- 
tober 25th,  i860,  Maria  Wharton  Morris  of  Philadel- 

"' -Archives  of  Mary  la7ui:  Proceedings  and  Acts  of  the  General  Assem- 
bly  of  Maryland,  April,  i6S4-fune,  1692.     Baltimore  1894,  pages  29,  41 
54,  96,  242. 

-^  Bible  and  other  family  papers  belonging  to  Arthur  Spayd  Brooke, 
Esq.  of  Reading,  Pennsylvania. 


64  THE    BROOKE    FAMILY    OF    WHITCHURCH. 

phia,  great-grandchild  of  Thomas  Wharton,  Governor 
of  Pennsylvania   in  the    time    of  the    Revolutionary 
War. 
Issue  : 

Helen  Brooke,  m.  Noel  Wittman. 
Arthur  Spayd  Brooke,  graduated  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania,  1897. 


A  PARTIAL  INDEX. 


Adison,  Colonel  John Note  36 

Alabama  arbitration  ....  P^o-px:  co    r-, 

Balch,  Rev.  Stephen  Bloomer  :    ."    .' Pa^  f  ^ 

^^^^^f"^.^ : : : : : :  Not  14 

fl"^''y Note  14 

Mary,    ...  p        ^ 

Baltimore,  Lord  p   '    "    '    '    '  ^^§^^,9 

BeallAn^a,  \ Pages  14,  15,  19.  6i 

Page  43 


f!:!i?f.*^'^ ;;;■.::  ?i.,^ 

43 

33 
Colonel  Ninian,    ..".'.    i.'    .'    ."    .'    .'    .'    ."    .'    .'     Pa|e  ^^ 


Elizabeth J,-g 

Firs,  Colonel  George '   ;     Pages  2^!  ^^ 

Second  Colonel  George,      Pap-g 


Thomas  Brooke,       .    .    .     Pages  40,  42,' 43  ;"  notes  54,  57 
Thomas,  "of  George"      ....        Pa^es  ^.s    -^6   di    ^7 

Berkeley,  Sir  William,  Governor  of  Virginia  ^  Pae^  ?? 

Brooke  arms   .    .    .  m^*.^'  ^  > 

Richard       -^^^^  ^  '  P^§^^  ^ 

Kichard,  p  J 

Robert,  of  London Pa|es  3  4 

Robert,  the  emigrant Pages  g-i 6,  59,  61 

Roger,  (1637-1700) Pages  12,  61 

Thomas,  the  first  of  Whitchurch    .    .  Pages  3-8 

Major  Thomas,      Pages  16-18 

r  1      ^  ^^^;«"el  Thomas, Pages  18-22 

Calvert,  Phihp Poo-o  t^ 

Charles  the  First     .....■:::;;    :    :    •    'Pagess    8    30 

the  Second p„p.„„ '     '  ^- 

Cheshire  ...  rages  30,  02 

Columbia  College  .....'."."'. vlT^V^ 

Corcoran,  William  W ;    ;    ;    ;     Pages  48?  49 

Dent,  Barbara p         J      \^  ^9 

^^^'°"^hire -         J,     ; 


A    PARTIAL    INDEX. 

Drummond,  William,  Governor  of  the  Southward  Plan- 
tations      Page  17 

Dumbartonshire Page  22 

Dumbarton,  Rock  of Pages  24,  25,  28,  35  ;  note  54 

Dunbar,  battle  of      Page  23 

Forster  of  Hunsdon Page  6  ;  note  6 

of  Iden Note  6 

Sir  Thomas,      Pages  6,  7 

Geneva  Tribunal Page  53 

Georgetown,  D.  C,  Pages  33-51  passim,  58;  notes  50,  54,  55, 

57.  58.  60 

Hampshire  (Hants,  Southampton)  Pages  i,  3,  9  ;  notes  i,  2,  69 

Harvard Page  53 

Hatton,  Eleanor, Page  18 

Inner  Temple Page  7 

Jackson,  Andrew Page  51 

Liberia Pages  45,  51,  56 

Magruders  (McGregors)      Note  54 

Mainwaring  arms       Note  67 

Mary, Pages  10,  59,  61 

Roger,  Bishop  of  St.  David Page  59 

Mecklenburg  Declaration  of  Independence       Note  64 

Naval  Academy Page  54 

Neale  arms Note  69 

Captain  James, Pages  61,  62 

Oxford  University Pages  5,  9 

Pennsylvania,  University  of Page  64 

Presbyterian  Church,  etc.     .    .    .    Pages  43,  44,  49,  55  ;  note  64 
Princeton  College      ....      Pages  43,  50,  51,  52,  55  ;  note  64 

Rock  of  Dumbarton Pages  24,  25,  28,  35  ;  note  54 

Slaves,  freeing       Pages  45,  51 

Somersetshire Page  43 

Stone,  William,  Governor  of  Maryland Pages  14,  16 

Sussex Notes  6,  14  ;  pages  9,  10 

Taney,  Roger  Brooke Pages  10,  51  ;  note  15 

Twyne  arms       Note   i  ;    page  6 

Elizabeth, Pages  1-4 

Washington,  Lewis  William, Pages  58,  59 

Colonel  George  Corbin, Page  57 

Wharton,  Thomas,  Governor  of  Pennsylvania     ....  Page  64 

Whitchurch Pages  i,  2,  3,  5,  8,  9 

Wiltshire Page  57 


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